Work & Career: New Job Quotes

"I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere"

Claudia Schiffer, Model

"After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie"

Colleen Haskell, Celebrity

"And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country, and this will provide job training, new skills, and additional resources for those trying to find a job"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy"

Ron Silver, Actor

"When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving"

Marla Sokoloff, Actor

"I enjoyed working with Peter. I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years"

Nicole Sullivan, Actress

"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs, and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"I actually started this year doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots and some games"

Julie Benz, Actress

"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today"

John Sexton, Educator

"In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point"

John Sexton, Educator

"We haven't even gotten a start date, but we'll see what happens with that, and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things, but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet"

Nia Long, Actress

"I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time"

Jeff Gannon, Journalist

"I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me"

Mark Harmon, Actor

"You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye!"

Ron Livingston, Actor

"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"And so I was doing that, and starving, and somebody said you should model, and I ran when they told me how much money you could make, and I did a television commercial the first job"

Sela Ward, Actress

"When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District"

Bob Ney, Politician

"It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing"

Emma Stone, Actress

"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress"

John Boehner, Politician

"The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change, though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started"

Adriana Lima, Model

"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set, I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience"

Charlotte Church, Musician

"It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit"

Mercer Reynolds, Businessman

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