Career Quote by Hanif Kureishi Download Open image ““Behind every vocation there is a fetish.”” — Hanif Kureishi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behind Every Career
“Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover.… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
“It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job… — Rosanna Leo Copy Share Image
“If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience,… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish." (Sebastian)” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.” — Tania Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer (...)” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.” — Shelly Branch Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image