Career Quotes
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A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
John Bercow
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There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.
America Ferrera
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Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.
Casey Neistat
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Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.
Holly Hunter
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
Martin Amis
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Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
Nigel Slater
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My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.
Jimmy Iovine
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Throughout Barack Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
Nat Hentoff
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You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.
Ellen Lupton
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I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.
John Knoll
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Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
Mickey Rourke
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Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
Geoff Dyer
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Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
Cathy Guisewite
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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
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I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.
Brett Favre
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I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.
Brice Marden
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I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'
Channing Tatum
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Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.
Paul Rudd
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I've chosen a career that's quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it's outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I'm so grateful for that every day.
Annaleigh Ashford
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Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
Ashley Judd
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The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.
Alexandra Levit
