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Career Quotes


"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."



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


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


"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."


"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."



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


"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."


"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."


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



"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."


"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."


"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."


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


"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."


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



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


"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."


"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."


"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."


"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."


"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."


"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."



"I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies."


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


"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."


"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."


"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."


"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."


"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."


"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."



"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."


"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"


"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."
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