Career Quotes
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Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
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I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.
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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
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I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
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It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.
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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.
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Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.
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At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.
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I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.
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I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.
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When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.
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The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.
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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
