“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.” RunningFunSpaceScientistExcitingWorkersBeing The BestStationsConstructionEngineersLaboratoryAssistantsBundlesPlumberElectrician Author:Thomas Marshburn
“In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.” IfsReligiousLaughingChildhoodVery GoodAbandonmentAssistants Author:Dalai Lama
“One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.” WayLittlesBitsFingersCinemaInstagramAnimatedAssistants Author:Camille Henrot
“I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughWantedEasyRoomsEnvironmentStrangeStudiosUncomfortableIf I CouldEngineersAssistants Author:Jack White
“A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.” LooksWorriedExecutivesAssistants Author:Vince Lombardi
“The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.” IfsWorldWaySeeingTelevisionUniqueProducersNurtureAssistantsMurphy Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'” LooksKindSaidRunningYoungGuyFatherChristTalentDirectorsGunRelationSalvationIncrediblesSakeProductionsProducersOur FamilyUncomfortableChairsComplimentThat GuyAssistants Author:Michael Ironside
“I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.” IfsYearsHouseFourBecomingMarriedHappeningsLettersInstantCeremonyBucksAssistants Author:Paul Smith
“I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.” UseAgeInternetResearchAssistants Author:Colleen Atwood
“There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of the Gregor books. So, I read it and couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it. I really became obsessed with the thought of producing it, and was completely bothered by the idea that anybody but me could produce it.” ThinkingShouldLittlesHas BeensTwoBookIdeasYoungGamesBitsCompanyGrowingFansProduceLittle BitSmartDown AndHungerObsessedBotheredAssistantsBrianVery SmartFellasHunger Games BookGame Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.” KnowsIdeasWantedActorsKnowingSceneDirectorsHotSeriesEpisodesVery HappyFbiAssistantsSkinner Author:David Duchovny
“Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.” YearsFirstsMotherOrderEasyLosesDarkStruggleFitBedDoctorsGlassesFakeExtrasPoundsPairsGapsAdoptionJeansAssistantsDark Glasses Author:Paula Poundstone
“If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone, and I'd recommend working as a surveyor's assistant or office staff before committing to the necessary schooling.” IfsCommunityChallengesLandAdventureOfficeIntellectualStaffSchoolingAssistantsSurveyors Author:Mark Mason
“I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.” KnowsWayReasonWantedBrainBoysFantasyBecomingNormalOpeningCorpsesSkullsAssistantsOpening UpNeurosurgeons Author:Joseph Brodsky
“I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.” ThinkingMindSometimesMomentsHandsFilmCamerasRipShoutingAssistants Author:Ellen von Unwerth
“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.” IfsThinkingLooksWould BeNaturalProduceEmotionalDegreesResponsePhotographAdvertisingProvokingAstonishingAssistantsArrangingEmotional ResponseMeatballs Author:Sandy Skoglund
“Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.” MadeProblemWantedProcessChanceSawsFieldsParticularBecomingBirdScientistLuckSolveIslandsBiologyAssistantsGalapagos Islands Author:David J. Anderson
“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.” FirstsTwoStatesKidsMotherThreeFeltEasyWonderfulHappenedCrazySonMonthsMereDepartmentMy SonSecretaryWonderful ThingsAssistantsThree MonthsBreastfeedingBalancing Act Author:Susan Rice
“Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant who knew too well what was expected. This possibility is supported by independent evidence that the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel's expectations.” IfsWellsHas BeensPossibilityExpectationsEvidenceIndependentAgreeRemainsExpectedExperimentsDataExplanationDeceivedAssistantsMendel Author:Ronald Fisher
“When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."” PeopleWantWellsLittlesHurtHellFeetReadyDrinkingProductionsLunchAdsAcheAssistantsGo To HellObnoxiousMovie SetsMargarita Author:Bill Murray
“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.” KnowsWayYearsFirstsJobsPayKnow HowTeamFootballGolfCoachesCoachingScoreMaryVansTournamentsWrecksAssistants Author:Lou Holtz
“It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.” HumansKindHardUseRaceInformationHuman RaceAssistants Author:Stuart J. Russell
“I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself.” FeelsTryingExampleAssistantsEmpathetic Author:Jim Shepard
“I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.” WorldFirstsFoundLeftPresidentFashionOfficeDawnTomsExposureAssistantsRetailGucciGoodmanBergdorf Goodman Author:Roopal Patel
“And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.” StatesAdviceOrganizationInternationalDepartmentRepresentativesSecretaryAssistantsLeashes Author:William A. Rusher
“State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here's Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House hearing.” NeedsStatesHouseRepublicanEvidenceLawyerDepartmentQuestioningSecretaryAssistantsNebraska Author:Tom Gjelten
“Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.” PeopleDoeI CanCan DoJusticeFiguresManagersHuntsAssistantsRigor Author:Joan Baez
“I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.” StillsCoachesAssistantsApprenticeship Author:Brendan Daly
“Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I don't have a food taster yet, I don't have a fluffer either. But, yes there are some days when I don't know if I am coming or going.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsWould BeGuyHollywoodNineTitlesReservedAssistants Author:Joel McHale
“Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.” WellsHas BeensKidsFilmStuffGrowing UpGrowingFrontsStudentsLuckyCamerasPressesProductionsExtrasAssistantsExaggeratedFilm Set Author:Nicole Holofcener
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingDoeSchoolJobsDifficultInterestTeachingStudentsDegreesLaborInstitutionsStartingGraduatesEmployedAssistantsInstructorsGraduate StudentsCheap LaborStay In School Author:Louis Menand
“I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.” KnowsFirstsWellsPlayBigsSchoolCommunityActingClassStudyMiddleStageSeasonsTheaterFinishedManagersCaliforniaGradesAssistantsSmall PartsMiddle SchoolActing ClassesNinth GradeStage Managers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.” I CanFilmCamerasContactSheetsStubbornLightingAssistantsVisceralReplicate Author:Carol Friedman
“I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.” KnowsLongImportantFunMinutesSubjectsLong TimeSelectLightingAssistantsSoundtracks Author:Carol Friedman
“The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.” PeopleTeacherPositionIndustryAverageIncomeRestaurantsMinimumNursingAssistantsMinimum WageFast FoodPreschoolParamedicsService IndustryFast Food Restaurants Author:David Rolf
“With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.” BigsRememberFilmFoundFeltAttentionRedCamerasHeavyImpressionRelatePay AttentionShootingCrewAvoidingAssistants Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don't have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn't fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it.” IfsThinkingMeanCan DoDifferencesStreetsFitDressesShoesShopsOnlineShoppingIntimidatedAssistantsRodeoGucciPradaOnline Shopping Author:Jennifer Saunders
“I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.” YearsLittlesHomeWantedLawThreePracticeGet BackThree YearsGave UpAttorneyAssistantsBack To WorkBabysitter Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.” YearsFirstsSaidStillsI CanStatesRememberNamesUnitedUnited StatesHonorFirst TimeCourtClientsAttorneyAssistantsStood Up Author:Samuel Alito
“Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.” YearsLife IsMotherFightingWifeDaughterYears AgoMy WifeMy DaughterAssistants Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.” PeopleFirstsLongNextTermStepsFieldsLeagueOrganizedAssociationSecretaryAdvancementAssistantsNext StepsCooperativesLingeringNaacpProfessional Relationships Author:Ella Baker
“The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.” IfsWaySecretDirectorsExtraordinaryVery GoodScriptsActressesAssistantsCinematographers Author:Lester Persky
“I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked at the Apple store because I wanted a discount to be able to buy new gear to edit things while I was figuring out whether or not I wanted to go to film school. Those were the main things.” YearsArtAbleWantedSchoolFilmHalfCompanyFairsProductionsStoresPostsApplesDocumentariesGearsEditsAssistantsDiscountsFilm SchoolPost ProductionDocumentary Films Author:Meera Menon
“One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.” MenShouldIndustryBritishPlatformsAssistantsCosmetics Author:Nan Goldin
“Some [actors] are really a pain in the ass today. I held out on getting an assistant forever because I didn't want to seem demanding... or like a pain in the ass. I didn't want someone working for me to hate me.” WantSeemsTodayPainHateActorsForeverAssAssistantsHate Me Author:Jessica Alba
“My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.” FiguresFlowerAssistants Author:Kehinde Wiley
“You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone, I'm gonna call that CEO and we're going to talk about this directly, instead of getting mired in a lot of the way down, you know, bureaucracy and red tape and having 25 assistants or deputies talk to somebody instead of going directly to the root of the problem.” KnowsWayKindProblemTrumpApproachPicksRedRootsPhonesTapeCeoBusinessmanBureaucracyAssistantsDeputiesRed Tape Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“The media does not do news. The media is the Democrat Party hacks assigned to journalism positions. Some hacks are consultants. Some are candidates. Some serve in elective office. Some are professors. Some are teaching assistants. Some run think tanks. Others are in the media.” ThinkingDoeRunningPartyTeachingMediaPositionOfficeNewsDemocratJournalismCandidatesProfessorsTanksAssistantsHacksConsultants Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesThirdsOfficialsAssociatesAttorneyAssistantsRanking Author:Rudy Giuliani