Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to… — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it. — Brady Quinn Copy Share Image
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards;… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
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