"I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera."
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"I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them."
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"Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something."
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"I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world."
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"If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era."
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"Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity."
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"I am always on the job."
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"John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job."
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"No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town."
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"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."
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"[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend."
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"Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare."
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"The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do."
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"I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job."
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"When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice."
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"Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement."
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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn"
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"When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere."
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"If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign."
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"What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate."
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