Boston Quote by Elinor Lipman

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first…

— Paul Haggis

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a…

— James L. Brooks

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a…

— Blake Shelton

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

— Lee Child

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged…

— Mika Brzezinski

I was fired from my first job in New York. I was just out of school, doing the Welsh play, 'The Corn Is Green,'…

— Barbara Barrie

One week after getting married in my thirties - while I was working as the main anchor at the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio…

— Gretchen Carlson

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a…

— Jose Saramago

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

— Matt Lauer

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual.…

— Toby Young

I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely…

— Nora Roberts

I left my job as an editorial assistant with Katie Couric at CBS to start our company. I think Katie has said being at…

— Alexa Hirschfeld