Careers Quotes - Page 30

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  Gary Oldman

  Ideas, People, Acting

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  Yoko Ono

  Nine, Months, Being Pregnant

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• I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

  Donny Osmond

  Stars, Children, Television

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• Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

  Donny Osmond

  Strong, Years, Vegas

  "Exclusive interview: Donny Osmond reveals back-stage secrets and spats with Marie as new Flamingo show celebrates gala opening tomorrow". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Online Extra: Meet the Prosperity Preacher". Interview with William C. Symonds, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 2005.

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• Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

  Clive Owen

  England, Certain

  "Derailed - Clive Owen interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Humble, Rejection

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, History

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Home, Motherhood

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• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

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• I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

  Michael Palin

  Blessed, Two, Delight

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• I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

  Dolly Parton

  Enjoyed

  "Dolly Parton talks new album, tour". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2002.

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• A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Dresses, Looks

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• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Blessed, Ungrateful, Personal Grooming

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• There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Challenges, Company

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• I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

  Ron Perlman

  Thinking, Actors, Host

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• I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

  Ron Perlman

  Autumn, Thinking, Skins

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• There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

  Joe Perry

  Children, Echoes, Stuff

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• My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, People, Might

  "Katy Perry: The press is no friend to marriage". www.today.com. May 4, 2011.

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• My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

  Katy Perry

  Baby, Jobs, Children

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

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• I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Moving, Orange, Acting

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• Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Might, Ridiculous, Intention

  "Joaquin Phoenix Stuns 'Letterman' Audience With Amy Winehouse-Like Appearance", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

  Pink

  Reading, Home, Sitting

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• I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Teaching, Ideas, Tools

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

  Brad Pitt

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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