Essie Davis Quotes
There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.Essie Davis
Quotes to Explore
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
J. R. Smith -
We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
Kate Brown -
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
Dan Byrd -
'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
Dana Ashbrook -
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
Victoria Principal -
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
Iggy Azalea
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
Wayne Rooney -
Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
Frances McDormand -
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz -
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
Larry Doby -
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
Barry Bonds
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I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.
Jacob Batalon -
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
James Rollins -
I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
Kathleen Sebelius -
It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
Mary Balogh -
I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
James Caan -
Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.
Jake Arrieta
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria Callas -
By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
Raghuram Rajan -
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
H. L. Mencken -
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.
Penelope Wilton -
If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.
M. Shadows -
There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
Essie Davis