The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
My grandfather was wary of me being a part of the industry for various reasons, ranging from the fact that we didn't… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
My parents are very practical people and they told me, 'If this comedy thing is an actual career and a job that… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
When I got involved in the punk scene, my notion of what a career was changed. I realized that a career in… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
After your career, you go to matches, and you see so many unnecessary goals because a person is just looking where the… — Frank Rijkaard Copy Share Image
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
I'm in this profession because of Mani Ratnam. He was the one who brought me here. He taught me everything. And he… — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,'… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
I always said I wanted to finish my career back at Ajax, but I didn't think I was going to play for… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
It was a conscious choice, to build my own career, to make a name for myself. Another issue here, of course, is… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of people think about careers being the ultimate goal when they grow up. They want to make a lot of… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
I was doing drag as just a hobby on the weekends to let my hair down. I never thought of drag was… — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
I've been doing my research and the benefits are really good with the FDNY, and it's like, this will be my career… — Angelina Pivarnick Copy Share Image
“Well, be careful,” she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her.… — Kate White Copy Share Image
I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more… — Larry Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m an occupational therapist, an obscure profession if there ever was one. We are few and far between, maybe because we have… — Rachel Thibeault Copy Share Image
I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
It is up to the people and boxing fans to give me the respect I deserve once I have finished my career.… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
I didn't start out my directorial career with a dance film, as I knew people thought a choreographer will easily make a… — Remo D'Souza Copy Share Image
I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I was really stressed out making 'Bad Habits.' I felt like if I didn't do well on that album, my career would… — Nav Copy Share Image
“Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur.… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
