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"Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave."
Janos Kadar
"Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave."
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"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
Stanislaw Lec
"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
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"I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career."
Robert Urich
"I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career."
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"I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore."
Bob Seger
"I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore."
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"It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed."
Tony Parker
"It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed."
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"The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be."
Tiger Woods
"The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be."
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"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."
Terry Zwigoff
"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."
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"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."
James Sinegal
"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."
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"I gave up my childhood for a career."
Brenda Lee
"I gave up my childhood for a career."
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"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."
Alex Lifeson
"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."
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"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."
Leroy Chiao
"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman."
Penelope Cruz
"The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman."
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"I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career."
John Cameron
"I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career."
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"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
Louise Brooks
"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
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"The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career."
Mario Lemieux
"The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career."
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"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
James A. Michener
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
Charlize Theron
"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
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"You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career."
Marvin Hagler
"You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career."
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"If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one."
Gerry Cooney
"If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one."
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"First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract."
Rob Walton
"First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract."
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"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."
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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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"I don't wish my career on anyone."
John Entwistle
"I don't wish my career on anyone."
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"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."
Newt Gingrich
"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."
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"I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades."
Paul Hirsch
"I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades."
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"Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well."
LaToya London
"Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well."
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"I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career."
DeForest Kelley
"I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career."
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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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"Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s."
Kim Wilde
"Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s."
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"Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me."
Persis Khambatta
"Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me."
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"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."
Jessica Savitch
"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."
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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 career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."
Ridley Scott
"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."
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"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."
Don Henley
"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."
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"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
Gary Sinise
"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
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"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."
Gary Larson
"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."
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"I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned."
Orlando Bloom
"I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned."
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"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."
Marguerite Young
"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."
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"We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career."
Jurgen Klinsmann
"We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career."
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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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"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."
Barbara Olson
"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."
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"It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times."
Gretchen Mol
"It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times."
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"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."
Persis Khambatta
"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."
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"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
Claire Danes
"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
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"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."
Frank Woolley
"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."
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"I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private."
Debi Mazar
"I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private."
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"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
Trevor Nunn
"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
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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."
Mary Crosby
"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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"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."
Marc Davis
"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."
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"My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route."
Fred Ward
"My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route."
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