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Career Quotes
"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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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
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"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
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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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"I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid."
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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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"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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"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."
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"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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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."
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"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."
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"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."
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"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
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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."
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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."
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"I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies."
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"If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn."
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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."
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"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."
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"Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?"
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"I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead."
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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."
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"Travis Sanchez rubbed a hand over his head as he stepped into an elevator at the Red Stone Security building. His Mohawk was gone and he wore his hair in a buzz cut these days. It was probably his military background, but he always came back to this cut out of habit. The walk to Harrison's office was too short. He wasn't sure why his boss had called him in after his last security detail, but a small burst of panic had detonated in his gut. He loved this job, but there had been some issues with the CEO he'd recently been guarding not following Travis' orders. The asshole had almost gotten himself killed and now Travis wondered if his head was on the chopping block because of it."
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"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."
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"Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career."
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"There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out."
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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."
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"I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine."
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"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
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"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it."
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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."
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"At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career."
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