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Career Quotes


"Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry."


"We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called."


"Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career."


"It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night."


"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted."


"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."


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


"If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little."


"I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars."


"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."


"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."


"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."


"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."


"I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed."


"If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics."


"Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times."


"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."


"I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to."


"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."


"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."


"I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career."


"Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized."


"They terminate your job? Employ yourself. They retire you? Refire yourself."
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