Profession Quotes
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
Barbara Sukowa
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
Patrick deWitt
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Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
Alyson Hannigan
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I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
Gerard Depardieu
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Kevin Spacey
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I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
Cate Blanchett
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The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them?
Charles Fried
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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
Amy Poehler
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
Lorin Maazel
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Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.
Neal Gabler
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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.
Honore de Balzac
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The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession.
Claudia Schiffer
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In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
Brian Tracy
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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
George Meany
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I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
Doris Humphrey
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Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
Craig Claiborne
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
Oscar Wilde
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.
George Washington