Careers Quotes - Page 23

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Shoes, Used

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• A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

  William Gibson

  Two, Labels, Fiction

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• I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

  Ellie Goulding

  Simple, Air, Water

  "Ellie Goulding: pop sensation". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  Ellie Goulding

  Heart, Get Better, Panic Attacks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Men, Pills, Wages

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• I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Mom, Twilight

  "Ashley Greene Talks The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and Olivia Twisted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  Wayne Gretzky

  Fun, Responsibility, Games

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

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• Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

  Matt Groening

  Writing, Two, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Ambition, Passion

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• A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

  Steve Guttenberg

  New Job, Comeback, Ups & Downs

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• Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

  Robert Griffin III

  Team, Thinking, Trying

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• I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

  Sammy Hagar

  Fans, Sides, Solo

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• If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

  Sammy Hagar

  Resumes, Solo, Vans

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• My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

  Larry Hagman

  Taken, Russia, Years

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• If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

  Tom T. Hall

  Figures, Barbara, Mines

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• I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

  Geri Halliwell

  Long, Pits, Solo

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• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Circus, Plates, Enjoy

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• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  Randy Harrison

  Independent, Play, England

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• I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

  Josh Hartnett

  Acting, Kind, Painter

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• When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

  Ernie Harwell

  Brooklyn, Height, Brilliant

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

  Salma Hayek

  Party, Upset, Firsts

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• Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

  Tippi Hedren

  Ruins, Obsession, Ruined

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• I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

  Tippi Hedren

  Years, Looks, Stones

  "Tippi Hedren, ‘The Birds’ Star: Alfred Hitchcock Ruined My Career" by John Stephens, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 07, 2012.

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• Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

  Christie Hefner

  Real, Decision, Done

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

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