I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

My dad loved being a part of 'Total Divas' and sharing that special connection that we shared in having the same careers in WWE.

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

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.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.

Social media is the basis of my career. Since I was a kid I've always used the Internet as a space to express myself creatively.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

I have a lot of respect for the careers of the players. They are with us, they are with me, and I treat them like professionals.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

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