Careers Quotes - Page 24

• My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

  Katherine Heigl

  Important, Important Things, Important Things In Your Life

  "Heigl’s Anatomy". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. January 2008.

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• Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

  Katherine Heigl

  Important, Trying, Passionate

  "Katherine Heigl admits she has image problem" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

  Mark Helprin

  New York, Writing, Assembly

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• The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

  Ken Hensley

  Writing, Priorities, Etcetera

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• Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

  John Hodgman

  Drama, People, Doe

  "Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. September 22, 2008.

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• You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Acting, Actors, Crew

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - DOUBT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Hard Times, Luxury, Decision

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• I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Trouble

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• When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

  Jessie J

  Voice, People, Special

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

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• I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Long, Want

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

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Artist, People, Able

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• My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Kids, Son

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Teaching, Thinking, Years

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

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• I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, Judging, Acting

  "An Interview With Hugh Jackman And Kate Beckinsale". Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 3, 2004.

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• I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

  Hugh Jackman

  Couple, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Goal, One Day

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Oct 05, 2011

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• There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Team, Cutting, Editing

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• I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

  Janet Jackson

  Hair, Bored

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• To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Doubt, Would Be, Oscars

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

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• Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Decision, Puppets, Saws

  "Katherine Jenkins: this much I know". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Whole, Fortunate

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• There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Skills, Magic

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

  Billy Joel

  Together, Materials, Whole

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• It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

  Boris Johnson

  Good Life, Writing, Media

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

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• After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

  Shawn Johnson

  Running, Gymnastics, Years

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