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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time. -- Jessica Savitch
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me. -- Lata Mangeshkar
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done. -- Martin Short
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. -- Charles Kuralt
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. -- Gordon Parks
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. -- Philip Emeagwali
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. -- Herb Ritts
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. -- Gordon Parks
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. -- Baltasar Gracian
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. -- Jessica Savitch
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. -- Neil Sheehan
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. -- Annie Leibovitz
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. -- Phyllis Schlafly
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture. -- William Albert Allard
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. -- Jessica Savitch
Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training. -- Fred F. Fielding
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. -- John Frankenheimer
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter. -- David Neeleman
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot. -- Roger Corman
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. -- Margaret Haddix
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it. -- Bobby McFerrin
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments. -- James E. Faust
In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments. -- Tulsi Gabbard
I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction. -- Dev Anand
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. -- Jim Gaffigan
My partners are Gourov Dasgupta and Roshan Balu. Together, we're 'Superbia'. I've already signed some film and non-film assignments. -- Shaan
Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun. -- Mark Romanek
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry. -- Paul Kane
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. -- David Axelrod
If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum. -- James E. Faust
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told. -- Jeffrey Toobin
I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way. -- Clayton Christensen
I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that. -- Virat Kohli
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments. -- John Eisenhower
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. -- Zooey Deschanel
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings. -- James E. Faust
Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home. -- Henry B. Eyring
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write. -- John Tesh
Women receive easily the most difficult assignments. -- Tarja Halonen
There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord. -- Vance Havner
Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences. -- J. G. Ballard
Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given. -- Fred Rogers
In the military, I learned that â??leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments, -- Tulsi Gabbard
Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA. -- Julie James
I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do. -- Kim Gordon
Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered"?-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments. -- Regina Doman
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. -- Megan Alexander
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students. -- L. Todd Rose
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments -- Lee Iacocca
I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects. -- Meghan Daum
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently. -- Anatoly Karpov
Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes. -- Herb Ritts
My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago. -- Lesley Visser
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction. -- Chang-Rae Lee
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. -- Christine Taylor
Just executing better. Getting into plays that help the offense as a whole, knowing our assignments better and just starting off stronger as you know we've struggled to do at times. -- Vadal Alexander
We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our job assignments in this project. -- David Schnarch
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them. -- Paula Fox
...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life. -- Sam Abell

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