I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

If she [Hillary Clinton] had not stood by the guy at any point, that might have meant the end of his [Bill Clinton's] career.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

I think my Italy career is over - it's only right they begin a new era without me. Besides, you have to run a lot under Conte!

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

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