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"Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career."
Sally Kellerman
"Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career."
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"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
Major Taylor
"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
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"My first career was as a coach and a teacher."
David Friedman
"My first career was as a coach and a teacher."
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"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
Tom T. Hall
"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
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"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
Brion James
"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
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"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."
Al Jarreau
"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."
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"When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice."
Joseph Wambaugh
"When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice."
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"I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens."
Bear Bryant
"I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens."
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"Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested."
David Steinberg
"Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested."
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"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
Vincente Minnelli
"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
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"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."
Christy Romano
"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."
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"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."
Judy Davis
"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."
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"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
Harold Budd
"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
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"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."
Victoria de los Angeles
"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."
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"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
Gordon Parks
"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
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"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."
Geraldine Ferraro
"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."
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"I don't wish my career on anyone."
John Entwistle
"I don't wish my career on anyone."
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"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."
Charlie Hunnam
"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."
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"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."
Harvey Keitel
"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."
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"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."
Tom Glazer
"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."
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"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
Thom Yorke
"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
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"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."
Lee Hazlewood
"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."
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"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."
Mats Sundin
"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."
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"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."
John Lothrop Motley
"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."
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"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."
John Hutton
"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."
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"Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today."
Tyra Banks
"Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today."
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"Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it."
Todd Stocker
"Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it."
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"Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions."
Jim Evans
"Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions."
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"When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers."
Tom Glazer
"When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers."
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"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."
Lorna Luft
"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."
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"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."
Brian De Palma
"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."
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"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."
Kristin Davis
"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."
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"I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies."
Janine Turner
"I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies."
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"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."
Ashley Judd
"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."
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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
Orison Swett Marden
"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
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"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
Jim Carrey
"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
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"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
Kurt Russell
"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
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"You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it."
Rafael Palmeiro
"You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it."
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"I have been driven demented in my career."
Lord Mountbatten
"I have been driven demented in my career."
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"In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love. Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love."
Marianne Williamson
"In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love. Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love."
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"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
Jack Abramoff
"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
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"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
Christine Baranski
"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
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"The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough."
Andy Rooney
"The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough."
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"There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me."
Ryne Sandberg
"There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me."
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"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."
Dabney Coleman
"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."
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"My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career."
Paul Nurse
"My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career."
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"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"
Hermann Maier
"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"
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"I have been enjoying my return to modeling. That's where my career started many years ago."
Rita Mero
"I have been enjoying my return to modeling. That's where my career started many years ago."
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"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
Armand Assante
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
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"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."
Dennis Eckersley
"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."
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