Careers Quotes - Page 37

• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Imagination, Feelings

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• The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, People, Irony

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Kids, Years, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

  Thom Yorke

  Made, Paranoid, Neurotic

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• Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

  Loretta Young

  Determination, Resumes, Courses

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• For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

  Helen Fisher

  Generations, Path, Changed

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• I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

  Romola Garai

  Acting, Lifetime, Achieve

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, Mind, Bollywood

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• I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

  Willard Wigan

  Teacher, Shoes, House

  "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

  Tom Perrotta

  People, Everyday, Important

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.128, St. Martin's Press

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Simplicity, Coats

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Deceit, Would Be

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Creative, Independence

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• She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wise, Children, Husband

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Guitar, Understanding

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House

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• I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Artist, Ideas

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• Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

  Max Barry

  Monday, Morning, Differences

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• I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Order, Ordinary

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

  Maureen Johnson

  Successful, Evil, House

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• But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Live Life, Creativity

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• Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, Names, Hollywood

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• This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gay, Discovery, Law

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• This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Stupid, Said, Plans

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