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Career Quotes
"Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it."
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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."
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"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."
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"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
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"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."
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"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."
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"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."
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"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
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"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."
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"At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career."
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"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."
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"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."
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"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."
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"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."
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"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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"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
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"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."
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"I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career."
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"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."
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"You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things."
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"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."
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"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."
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