Long Careers Quotes

• Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Careers, Long, Acting

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• Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.

  LaVell Edwards

  Appreciation, Careers, Long

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• Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career It has turned out a whole lot better than I ever, ever, ever dreamed.

  LaVell Edwards

  Dream, Careers, Long

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• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Thinking, Ice, Careers

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 13, 2002.

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• Ive been blessed to have a long career.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Blessed, Careers, Long

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• Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Encouragement, Morning, Past

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I had in mind a long career.

  Eve Arnold

  Careers, Long, Mind

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• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  Tyler Florence

  Nice, Years, Careers

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• During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

  Alan Bradley

  Careers, Long, People

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• It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

  Rupert Grint

  Self Esteem, Careers, Long

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• I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Texas

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• I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Careers, Long, Oblivion

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• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers

  Country, Disappointment, Blessed

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Careers, Odds

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

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• Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

  Jewel

  Careers, Two, Long

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• We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

  Alex Lifeson

  Careers, Long, Records

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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, Careers

  "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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• An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Careers, Interesting, Long

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• Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

  Neal Stephenson

  Flames, Careers, Long

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson. Chapter 64: "Organ", 1999.

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• Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe some movie stars who have their big speeches that they do that ends their long career in a roast. You're entire career in the WWE kind of like one big roast, but this is the moment where you get to soak it in and just see what's going on for a minute.

  Amy Dumas

  Stars, Wrestling, Wwe

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• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  Kate Mara

  Friday, Home, Night

  "Three Reasons We Love Kate Mara" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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