Career Quotes
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I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.
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There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
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I spent the first 15 years of my career in Seattle.
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If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.
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It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
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You have to take control of your own career.
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Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
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It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.
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With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.
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You need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.
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I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.
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I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.
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A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
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Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
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I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.
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I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
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One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
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I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.
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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
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I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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It's hard to have a career.
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I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.
