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		I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.
	
	  Lee Bermejo Lee Bermejo
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		I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
	
	  Kathryn Lasky Kathryn Lasky
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		Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
	
	  Mandy Moore Mandy Moore
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		I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.
	
	  Gabrielle Reece Gabrielle Reece
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		In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
	
	  Vin Scully Vin Scully
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		My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.
	
	  Lalo Schifrin Lalo Schifrin
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		Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1
	
	  Alessandra Ambrosio Alessandra Ambrosio
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		I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
	
	  Ben Moody
			
			
				Evanescence Ben Moody
			
			
				Evanescence
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		My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
	
	  Jessie Mueller Jessie Mueller
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		The concept of Red was to build a camera with as much capability as possible... for the professional market. Then we thought we could extend it down a bit to the prosumer level. Apparently, that was a mistake.
	
	  James Jannard James Jannard
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		A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
	
	  H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken
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		Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'
	
	  Dan Quayle Dan Quayle
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		Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.
	
	  Brian Goldman Brian Goldman
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		I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
	
	  Allison Anders Allison Anders
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		Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
	
	  Carli Lloyd Carli Lloyd
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		It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
	
	  Andrew Luck Andrew Luck