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jobs character air
Charles Dickens "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
Charles Stross I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
Charles Stross What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
Alan Watts It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Alan Parker Film-making is a physically hard job.
jobs asking way
Alan Patricof I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
jobs two together
Alan Rickman One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
jobs home feet
Alan Rickman I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
acting theatre nerves
Alan Rickman Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
acting actors doe
Al Pacino Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
acting dies
Al Pacino Either I act or I die.
acting actors crafts
Al Pacino I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
acting i-realized
Al Pacino It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
acting
Al Pacino A lot of acting is private time.
acting actors merchandise
Chow Yun-Fat An actor is only merchandise.
acting moments be-good
David Duchovny There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
acting scar
Benedict Cumberbatch I have actual acting scars.
sane
Edgar Allan Poe I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
sane
Robert Bloch We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.
sane sociable
John Updike We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
sane gratification
Ian Bogost To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.
sane
A. J. Liebling No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
sane ifs all-things
Jacque Fresco If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
sane
Rebecca Hall No family is sane, is it?