In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
Two of my most important signings were made at the beginning of 2004. I took 20-year-old Clint Dempsey with the eighth pick of the MLS SuperDraft and added 51-year-old ex-Arsenal striker Paul Mariner as my assistant on a free transfer from Harvard University, where he’d been coaching.
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director’s talent scares me. I admit that they’re more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don’t state them strongly.
Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn’t leave them at that point.
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher’s assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.
I hadn’t even watched ’24’ before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn’t a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, ‘Yes, sir. No, sir.’
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
And I loved every single second of being an assistant coach. I loved it.
I was playing division three basketball and I wanted to find a way to work in basketball full-time. The way to do that was not in division three right away; you’d have to be a part-time assistant or whatever. So, I made the decision to transfer to Kentucky. Just so I could get my feet wet and maybe get a job in D-1.
People tell me I need an assistant, but I don’t want one.
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director’s assistant, an editor.
I like to talk to people. I’ve got one assistant, one Blackberry. That’s my overhead. I don’t text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I’m old-fashioned.
My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.
I was a graduate assistant at Colorado State, and I think we got $550 a month.
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts’ work in the White House, as in the counselor’s office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
I didn’t spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
As a former Assistant Secretary of State, Senior Director on the National Security Council, and Washington Director for Human Rights Watch, I hope to bring unique experience and knowledge to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump’s inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.
Before and after my debut, I’ve helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
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.
Having anything to do with a hit film is great. Even if you’re a third assistant to the director or second to the editor, if the film does well, every technician, every actor benefits from it.
For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him… that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team’s stars, stuff like that.
I receive underwear – some clean, some not. No joke. My assistant who helps me with my fan mail constantly threatens to quit because of what we get sent.
As an assistant coach, that’s basically your role – to get close to your players, talk to them every day and get the most out of them.
Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot! It used to be a photographer, a couple of photo assistants, stylist and a fashion assistant, hair and make-up and that was about it.
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Deathstorm sees Power Ring as a fascinating experiment. Deathstorm is a scientist who’s been merged with the dead body of his lab assistant. It’s given him a cold demeanor and a clammy touch.
What’s interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer – I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing – and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work.
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 just happened to see an ad saying ‘Willing to train an assistant editor,’ and I learned enough from that to go to NYU for just one summer course. That’s all that I could afford.
As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you’re opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you’re watching it until you finally fall asleep.
Show me one director who does not get angry on their assistant for something that has gone wrong. But it is done out of my love. It’s just fun when I tell them to face a wall and stand or kneel down in a corner. It’s not like I want to punish them harshly. It’s not to humiliate; it is to teach.
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
The position of an assistant director in Japan is a handyman who does everything if necessary. They must overcome the unreasonable demands of hard-hearted and whimsical directors, and staff with different personalities or habits.
Not head coach – Assistant would be very attractive, but I don’t think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.
I was one of the assistant dancers of ‘Race’ 10 years ago, and now I am one of the lead actors of ‘Race 3,’ where I have got a chance to share screen space with some of the legends of our country like Anil Kapoor and Salman Khan. I am overwhelmed.
My assistant says I’m an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts… about 4,000 now. Maybe I’ll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant – Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs – as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They’ll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I’ll always be together with the other two laureates.
I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, ‘How am I going to make a film if I can’t write?’ I didn’t really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam’s Club and Walmart International.
