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“I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.”

Ifs I Can Whole Shows Able Winning Race Careers Cups

Author:Scott Pruett

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Firsts Careers Bills

Author:Aaron Paul

“So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.”

Facts Sports Race Careers Judging Seasons

Author:Alain Prost

“Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.”

Way Firsts Play Guy Class Careers England Cricket First Class Watersheds

Author:Andy Pick

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

Wanted Faces Black Acting Careers Goes On Management University Boxes Brown Phds Black Face

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.”

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Author:Busy Philipps

“I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.”

Made Kids Careers Baby Jokes Agents Pregnant Having A Baby Nobody Cares Were Pregnant

Author:Busy Philipps

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

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Author:Daniel Pipes

“There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.”

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Author:Jared Padalecki

“I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.”

People Thinking Careers Havens

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.”

Wells Character Able Jobs Careers Fields Students Particular Discipline Embrace Wide Variety Specialists

Author:Philippe Perrin

“He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!”

“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.”

Ifs Knows Should Character Body Would Be Moving Careers Shapes Concerned Athlete Looking Good Getting In Shape

Author:Aidan Quinn

“Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.”

Turns Careers Pinnacle Blockbuster

Author:Kelly Reilly

“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”

Thinking Actors Careers

Author:Alan Rickman

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.”

Mean Careers Successful Huge Labor Solo Labor Of Love

Author:Amy Ray

“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

School Acting Careers High School Favors Forsaken

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.”

Careers Instinct Starting Fighter Guts Chapters Filmmaking

Author:David O. Russell

“Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.”

Bigs House Careers Conversation Topics Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.”

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Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.”

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Author:Jackson Rathbone

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.”

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Author:James Rollins

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

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Author:Joely Richardson

“The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.”

Thinking Careers My Family Debt Profession Horrible Again And Again Turned Down

Author:Joely Richardson

“I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.”

Careers Fortunate

Author:Johnny Ramone

“Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.”

Important Ideas Different Able Film Careers Huge Who I Am Bats

Author:Kim Raver

“I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.”

Helping Acting Careers Whim Music Career

Author:Lance Reddick

“It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”

Kind Different Character School Careers Drama All Kinds Range Different Characters

Author:Lance Reddick

“As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.”

Hard Careers Hard Work All Time Preparation

Author:Leven Rambin

“Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.”

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Author:Mark Rydell

“In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.”

Thinking Want Looks Able Careers Shots Athlete Best Shot

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.”

People Games Careers Cry Fulfilled

Author:Stephen Rea

“My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.”

People Thinking Able Grows Careers Economic Skills Reinventing

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

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Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”

Hard Feelings Artist Father Felt Careers Died Who I Am Hard Times Having A Hard Time

Author:Kiki Smith

“It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.”

Ifs Years Actors Situation Careers Successful Tough

Author:Ray Stevenson

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”

Kind Wanted Fun Careers Watches Growing Up Growing Team Models My Favorite Gymnast

Author:Alicia Sacramone

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