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“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.”

Ifs Knows Want Asks Careers Fashion Bottom

Author:Tamara Mellon

“There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.”

Men Persons Has Beens Moments Steps Careers Tough Plates Step Up Underestimated Tough Person

Author:Tamara Mellon

“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Three Bits Careers Four Crazy Position Finished Quilts

Author:Alfred Molina

“There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.”

Feels Stills Sports Careers Filled Disappointment Emptiness

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.”

Should Careers Really Great Great Relationship

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.”

Trying Stills Acting Careers College Tough

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.”

Has Beens Political Choices Careers Issues Candidates Controversy

Author:Claire McCaskill

“I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.”

Ifs Lines Careers Focused Hanging Out

Author:Cory Monteith

“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.”

Want Has Beens Said Winning Sports Goal Careers Break Records Fortunate Bowls Super Bowl Miami Dolphins

Author:Dan Marino

“I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.”

Knows Want Feels Play Winning Careers Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Dan Marino

“Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.”

Way Done Courses Careers Five Four Changed Reader Things Change Feedback

Author:Debbie Macomber

“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.”

People Feels Firsts Kind Mean Romance Fiction Careers Reader Storytelling Fascinated Storyteller

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.”

Years Has Beens My Own Acting Careers College Eight Los Angeles Dressings Entry Being Me Dressing Up Broadcasting

Author:Eleanor Mondale

“When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?”

Left Careers Goes On

Author:Hermann Maier

“But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.”

Hard Today Acting Careers Successful

Author:James MacArthur

“My family is my career.”

Careers My Family

Author:James McBride

“The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.”

People Thinking Careers Fairs Towns Train Intense Hey Hops Backlash Lilith Bummer

Author:St. Vincent

“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”

Long Hard Running Past Young Careers Havens Smart Actresses Long Runs Items Provocative Editorials

Author:Allison Williams

“The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.”

Bigs Next Careers Greatness Agency Conventions Almighty Big Things Signing Tapping

Author:Jaleel White

“You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.”

Knows Heart Actors Careers My Heart Dear

Author:Michael K. Williams

“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.”

People Way Children Art Facts Parent Careers Taught Raises Passionate Family Life

Author:Olivia Williams

“I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.”

Voice Careers Roles Happened Feet Inches

Author:Olivia Williams

“My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.”

Way Careers Risk One Way

Author:Peter Weller

“I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.”

Should Trying Has Beens Hands Careers Should Have Leaving Should Have Been

Author:Ray Walston

“I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Interest Careers Broke If I Could Offering

Author:Sam Waterston

“There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.”

Mean Made Whole Able Careers Week Special Green Coats Sincerely Jackets

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.”

Important Mother Careers My Favorite Being A Mother

Author:Jenni Rivera

“My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.”

People Way Ideas Careers Adventure Goes On Curiosity Admire Magazines My Way Weasels

Author:John Hodgman

“The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.”

Has Beens Different Whole Would Be Certain Careers Wings Spots

Author:Bob Mould

“Milan is my favorite team. Every weekend I check the Serie A results to see how Milan fared. Milan has really great players, like Seedorf, Ibra, Pato and Thiago Silva. Then there is Nesta who is a great champion, it's enough just to look at his career.”

Looks Enough Results Careers Player Team My Favorite Checks Champion Weekend Really Great Milan

Author:Mamadou Sakho

“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.”

People Different Careers Focus

Author:Andy Murray

“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”

Use Shows Jobs Used Careers Streets Wall Degrees Connections Athlete Credit Hated League Score No Money Ivy Professional Athlete Ivy League Dartmouth Credit Scores

Author:Brian J. White

“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.”

Firsts Actors Deals Careers Weight

Author:Sara Rue

“You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.”

Hate Careers Pursue Things You Love

Author:Dave Grohl

“I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.”

Ifs Stills Desire Careers Paid Something You Love

Author:Mathew Baynton

“I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.”

Done Careers Roles Havens

Author:Alexa Vega

“I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.”

Way Want Long Careers Going Away Long Careers

Author:Chris Cornell

“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.”

People Men Firsts Has Beens Made Done Whole Fall Waiting Careers First Time Sick Court

Author:Allen Iverson

“He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.”

Ifs Careers Player Brown Larry Mvp

Author:Allen Iverson

“I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.”

Trying Might Careers Students Masters Photographer Photograph Print Transfers Intricacy

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Persons Enjoy Challenges Careers Wise Satisfied Ambitious Ambitious Person

Author:Jason Isbell

“As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.”

Careers Watches Spectators

Author:Landon Donovan

“My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.”

Writing Wells I Can Dream Next Forget Careers Morning Written Wake Up Down And Tables Incredibles Nonsense Usual Purple Sock Pads

Author:George R. R. Martin

“It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.”

Home Dream Winning Careers Childhood Special Drivers Racing Unbelievable Highlights Childhood Dreams Racing Driver Grand Prix Monaco

Author:Nico

“Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Persons Feelings Beautiful Careers Cases Stage Work Out Fulfilled Personal Life Career Women

Author:Leontyne Price

“In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.”

Political Careers Budgets Amendments Balanced Balanced Budget

Author:Ken Buck

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.”

Feels May Lines Race Careers Priorities Preference

Author:Chris Froome

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