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		Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Amanda Schull 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlton Cuse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naturi Naughton 
			 
			
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		I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gayle Forman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy West 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. K. Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kamala Harris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tate Donovan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Lippman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Omar Epps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Mulgrew 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Belfour 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		People always ask me how I muster the strength to be so open about things, and I explain to them that I took the Myers-Briggs test, like, four times, and every single time, I ranked an 87 percent extrovert, so it would probably take more strength for me to shut up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Leandra Medine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Henry Ward Beecher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent Bugliosi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexandra Fuller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Bergen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Amanda Schull