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		When you're at the highest point of your career at the highest level in your sport, any moment that you have these setbacks and injuries is devastating. You have to start back from zero, and you never know if you're going to get back to where you once were.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ali Krieger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Duhigg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mario Testino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: 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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meg Whitman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jake Arrieta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kirby Smart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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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 would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Trent Reznor
			
			
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		A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jay Parini
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Betty White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It doesn't get much better than playing Elvis during the early days of his career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Drake Milligan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Van Morrison