Kathryn Minshew Quotes
It's easy to imagine that because a certain company has a prestigious reputation or everyone says it's a great place to work, that it will be the perfect fit for you. But, in reality, the search to find a career is a much more individual process.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.
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It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Antony Sher -
It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.
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It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
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It's easy to imagine that because a certain company has a prestigious reputation or everyone says it's a great place to work, that it will be the perfect fit for you. But, in reality, the search to find a career is a much more individual process.
