Career Quotes

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead
- Great
- Important
- Book
Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.

Mark Fuhrman
- Career

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
- Truth
- Reading
- Emotional
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

Colin Hay Men at Work
- People
- Career
A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.

Jerry West
- People
- Long
- Happy
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

Viggo Mortensen
- Good
- Hope
- Small
Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

Irina Shayk
- Beautiful
- Best
- Moment
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

Wanda Jackson
- Good
- Plan
- Good Things