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Career Quotes


"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."


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


"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."


"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."


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



"I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me."


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


"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."



"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."


"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 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."


"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."


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


"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."



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


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



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


"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."


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


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


"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."



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


"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."


"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."


"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."


"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."


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


"I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more."



"I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged."
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