Career Quotes
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I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
Dario Argento
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When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
Emily Berrington
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
Sally Kellerman
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Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
George V. Higgins
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I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.
Amrita Singh
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar
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If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
Mara Brock Akil
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Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.
Rachel Hoffman
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Larry Smith
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As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
Donna Brazile
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I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
Tammy Blanchard
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
Billie Whitelaw
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A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
Christopher Lee
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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.
Shakira
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I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.
Chloe Zhao
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Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
James Altucher
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I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.
Christie Laing
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
Emma Watson
