Careers Quotes - Page 32

• I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

  Emma Roberts

  Trying, Persons, My Own

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• In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

  Julia Roberts

  Essence, Pretty Woman, Reason

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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• Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

  Chris Rock

  Comedian, Comfort, Zone

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2004.

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• Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

  Kid Rock

  Michigan, Done, Detroit

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2017

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• When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

  Joe Rogan

  Years, People, Guy

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

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• Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Hunger Strike, Comedian

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• Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

  Ginger Rogers

  Eye, Years, Svengali

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• 'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career.

  Ginger Rogers

  Real, Leader, Flying

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

  Ray Romano

  Complaining, I Can

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• Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

  Ann Romney

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Satisfied

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• Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Children, School

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Differences, Romance

  New Hampshire Republican presidential debate sponsored by Meet the Press and Facebook, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2011.

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• Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

  Wayne Rooney

  Young, Temperament, Bad Press

  "Wayne's World Cup?". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

  Wayne Rooney

  Player, Important, Different

  "Wayne Rooney Q&A - my time is now". Daily Mail Interview, worldfootball.dailymail.co.uk. June 19, 2012.

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• I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Continuing On, Rich Life

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

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• I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

  Eli Roth

  Writing, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

  Richard Russo

  Betrayal, Mean, People

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• I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

  Winona Ryder

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

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• This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Scary, Conducting, International

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• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Order, Ideas

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• For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Grandmother

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Team, Impact, People

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• It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Home, Pressure

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• I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fog, Literature, Niche

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Way, Plans

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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