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Career Quotes


"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."


"I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career."


"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."


"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."


"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."


"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."


"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."


"I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career."


"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."


"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."


"I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades."


"I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career."


"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."


"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."


"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."


"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."


"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."


"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."


"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."


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



"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."


"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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