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"My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life."
"Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you."
"When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids."
"If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%."
"I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else."
"Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have."
"If you're spending a lot of time in the writers' room and then you're also acting, you have your foot in both of those doors. I'd always say to the writers, "You can say whatever you want about your boss in front of me. I'm not going to think about it as my girlfriend." You've got to be able to trash your boss, in any job."
"You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well."
"In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list."
"My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer."
"The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability."
"A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results."
"Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't."
"Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along."
"Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss."
"Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society."
"I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important."
"Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from."
"You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese."
"If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance."
