Career Quotes
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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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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I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.
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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
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Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.
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It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
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No matter what happens in my career, I've always got 'The Fall.'
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.
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Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.
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A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
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I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.
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I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
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Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.
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I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life.
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When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'
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He is definitely a prime example of how to be a pro, whether it's on the field, off the field, whatever. You can't have a better model for a young guy coming in on how to behave yourself and how to carry yourself. He's definitely done all the right things throughout his career.
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The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
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I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
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I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.
