One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.
Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional.
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.
It's not that I set out to say, 'I'm going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.' That really - it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.
I remember when I got my first salary, Rs 3000/- while working as an assistant director during my college summer vacation and I gave it to my mom.
If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle.
I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.
What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.
When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.
I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.
In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.
I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.
I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.
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.
Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.
I know that my day wouldn't be nearly as streamlined or productive if it weren't for my team - a team that begins with my Executive Assistant.
What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot of cleaning involved. It's a vocation.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
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.
As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.
I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.
I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
And I loved every single second of being an assistant coach. I loved it.
I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.
If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.
I feel like I have been putting out a consistent body of work, just waiting for that agent, that executive, that assistant to the bigwig to stumble across it.
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
I've turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn't feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
I have a rule where once a week I have a date night with my wife, and that's the time when I put my phone away and have calls forwarded to my assistant in case of emergency.
I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
I am working really hard with assistant coaches on both hands, left and right, finishing.
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
I started out on an apprenticeship in Hollywood working as an assistant to Hans Zimmer and another composer Klaus Badelt. That's how I got my foot in the door.
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