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Career Quotes


"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."



"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."


"Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it."


"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."


"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting."


"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."


"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."


"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."


"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."



"And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy."


"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."


"Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did."


"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."


"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."



"In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband."



"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."



"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."



"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."


"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."


"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."



"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"


"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."


"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."


"If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens."


"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."


"After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers."


"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."


"My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote."


"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly."


"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."


"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."


"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
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