“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.” KnowsWritingFirstsRealWantedJobsRocksStonesBunchJournalismRollingRock And RollRolling StonesInvestigative Journalism Author:Tim Cahill
“On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.” WantFirstsJobsSoundLevelsSituationSupportHappenedStonesMusclesSharonAmerican Jobs Author:Russell Crowe
“How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.” IfsHas BeensSometimesProblemSchoolJobsProcessTeachStonesScientistAskingExperimentsObservationExplanationTestingAsking Questions Author:Paul Nurse
“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.” KindBookIdeasAbleJobsFeltInterestGrowing UpRecordsGrowingOne ThingRocksMediaTelevisionCollegeNormalConsciousStonesCriticismCriticsNo IdeaDawnRollingRolling Stones Author:Chuck Klosterman
“By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.” WantIdeasJobsFilmLyingTalkingGrowingOne ThingSceneLimitsAmbitionStonesBiggerPassingPassingsJust BeingArcsMy AmbitionStepping StonesPassing Through Author:Gavin Rossdale
“I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, i.e., the grail. Sometimes you get what you need. And whatever she's gotten over the last couple of years, being humbled or be it being humbled and see the proletariat come to bat for her, getting outside of the bubble, getting out of this man's shadow, not quite getting the job she wants but a great wonk job.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsYearsSometimesJobsLastsSongCoupleShadowStonesClintonWhat You WantRanBubblesRollingBatsPresidencyBe HumbleRolling StonesProletariat Author:Dennis Miller
“With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.” JobsNextHoursNewsStonesConspiracySalinger Author:Jonathan Alter
“I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.” KnowsLongJobsNiceColdStonesAgentsManagersGreat MenLoserLong LifeReally NiceStone ColdGreat Managers Author:Mackenzie Davis
“I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.” LongTwoJobsHoursNiceWeekCoupleStonesLet MeDisappearShootingRollingVery NiceTwo DaysRolling Stones Author:Jancee Dunn
“The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.” WayShouldJobsNextStepsStandardsStonesDefinitionsImprovementBest WayNext Steps Author:Masaaki Imai
“And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees” BelieveLittlesMadeStillsHandsJobsWishImpossibleBloodSeaSkyBabyDevilStonesEndureLipsSmellCupsKnees Author:Nick Cave