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		The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Boo Weekley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Borland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Candace Parker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Langevin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Gandolfini
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Benjamin Earl King
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dominique Dawes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Rudisha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donnie Wahlberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Battelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matthew Macfadyen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karyn Kusama