Career Quotes
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When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest introduction to a character I've seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions.
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If elected members of any body - whether it's a state house or Congress - were not willing to take career-ending or at least election-losing votes, I would not have the right to vote today.
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I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
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Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
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'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
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It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
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At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
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Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
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My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.
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There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
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I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.
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I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
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I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
