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It is my assignment to change this country.
I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'
When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.
I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'
My first assignment was a curtain-puller for 'The Curious Savage.'
I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly.
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.
I never worry about my next assignment, am never concerned when I'm out of work.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
I have never asked anyone for an assignment; never asked a producer or a director for a role.
When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.
I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I'm very much driven by assignment.
Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.
I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.
I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.
For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.
It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.
I gave up my children to an American couple and went to Vietnam on an army assignment where I helped soldiers identify and get rid of hidden mines.
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.
I read it in college as an assignment. I didn't think about it at the time. But when I heard there was a 'The Handmaid's Tale' pilot, I freaked out.
I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back.
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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.
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.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
I encounter thousands of people, millions of people, over the course of ministry, but there's been a handful of people that I knew was like, this was direct assignment.
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.
With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.
For even the most seasoned diplomats and foreign policymakers, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is a pressure cooker assignment that can cause angst of an existential nature.
Now, I'm not afraid. Or getting myself down about missing shots or missing an assignment late. The game goes on. You've got another chance. That's definitely a mental thing.
Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.
When I first took up an acting assignment, I knew nothing about the industry or the responsibilities attached to the profession. I just went, played my part and that was that.
When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.