Careers Quote by Dylan Thomas

“A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.” quote by Dylan Thomas — Download Open image

“A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.”

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I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the…

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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

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“Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds.”

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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and…

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I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their…

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Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers…

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Do not go gentle into that goodnight, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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To begin, at the beginning...

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Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.…

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I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with…

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Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

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And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my…

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The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

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I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Kenny Wormald

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and…

Anthony Jeselnik

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

Gerry Cooney

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The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got…

Ty Burrell

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

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My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to…

Tom Verlaine

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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

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The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary,…

Andrew Dickson White