Careers Quotes - Page 21

• Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Writing, Years

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8381, Delphi Classics

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• I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Comedy, Built

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• You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

  Fred Durst

  Art, People, Fuel

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• I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Retirement, Fun, Busy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

  Jenny Eclair

  Writing, People, Solo

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Odds, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

  Britt Ekland

  Love Life, Hard Times, Actresses

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• I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

  Britt Ekland

  Country, Mother, Son

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• I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

  Idris Elba

  Singing, Pieces, Stills

  "Idris Elba: 'My film about Nelson Mandela is hands down the best'". Interview with Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Two, Lunch

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• There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

  Paul Engle

  New York, Writing, Iowa

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• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  Omar Epps

  Legs, Saying No, Wanted

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• When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Years, Philadelphia

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Children, Reality, Height

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• Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Actors, Honestly

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

  Rupert Everett

  Photogenic

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• I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

  Rupert Everett

  Stress, Miserable

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• I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

  Paloma Faith

  Mean, Hands, Acting

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• When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

  Paloma Faith

  Song, Distance, Writing

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• I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

  Mia Farrow

  Men, Thinking, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

  Brett Favre

  Jobs, People, Proud

  "Brett Favre: First and Ten". Ign Sports Interview, www.ign.com. 29 November 2004.

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• Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

  Brett Favre

  Reality, Light, Guy

  "Brett Favre: First and Ten". Ign Sports Interview, www.ign.com. 29 November 2004.

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• I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

  Brett Favre

  Accomplished

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• I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

  Brett Favre

  Retirement, Needs, Stuff

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• Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Consistency, Consistent

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