When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
It is very important to me to maintain a consistent workout regimen during the season. The Bulls staff does a great job with providing me with a weekly workout, and these kept me energized throughout my rookie season. In the off season, I try to increase my strength and add new dimensions to my game.
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Writing is a job: you must show up.
But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.
I work for women. I only think for them. If I didn't like women, I wouldn't do this job.
The body is a great machine, and it knows how to take care of itself. I think more often than not the things we do to our skin or our bodies can hold it back from doing its proper job.
I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.
Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
I have absolutely no preference on TV or stage. Every job I take or that I audition for all comes down to the quality of the script.
If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
When Mitt Romney talks about women, when he says he believes that we can do any job a man can do, I know from experience that he's speaking from the heart.
My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
