Career Quotes
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
Macaulay Culkin
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
Victoria Pendleton
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
Samuel Barnett
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
Calvin Johnson
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
Nadia Comaneci
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To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.
Aidan Turner
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie Portman
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Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
Mark Fuhrman
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
Paloma Faith
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Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Jonathan Sacks
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
Bruce Sutter
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I know when to have fun, but when it comes to my music, I'm really serious about my career.
Jessica Sanchez
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When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
Salma Hayek
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
Barry Bonds
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My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
Janet Echelman
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Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
Jason Aaron
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I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.
Luke Bryan
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I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
Genevieve O'Reilly
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Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Kevin Powers
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It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.
Dylan Penn
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I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'
Geoffrey Hinton
