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The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.
Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.
I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'
Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career.
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.
My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.
We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
I've always been me. The last three weeks of my career, I've cut some of the best promos I've ever cut, and I do consider myself to be a promo guy.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.
But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.
I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.
Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.
It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.
The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.
There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.
I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.
If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
I read Henry Miller's 'Nexus,' 'Sexus' and 'Plexus' the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.
The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.
I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.
I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.