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“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”

“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”

Firsts School Sports Careers College Paper Pages High School Newspapers Editors Unusual Editorials

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.”

Humans Natural Careers Study Achievement Historical Unity Conception Natural Science Greatest Achievement

Author:James Henry Breasted

“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

Trying Kind Long I Can Different Voice Steps Careers Singing Different Kinds Haul Sopranos Long Haul

Author:Victoria Clark

“And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.”

Careers Short Lived

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.”

Believe Bigs Careers Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.”

Ifs Knows Years Character Careers Singers Odd Blair

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.”

Feels Careers Nice Player Football Skills Fortunate Consistent Football Player

Author:Darren Flutie

“Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.”

Way Years I Can Problem Body Used Acting Careers Appreciate Weight Chosen Mature No Problem

Author:Dana Hill

“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Happens Film Choices Deals Careers Clear Balance

Author:Lukas Haas

“I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.”

Years Kind Has Beens Found Speak Difficult Careers Six Seven Cracks Nuts Coming Back Seven Years Retired New Car New Career

Author:Julie London

“Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.”

Film Waiting Careers Casts

Author:Richard LaGravenese

“I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!”

Men Want Believe I Can Careers Forever Wonderful Married Blessed Genes Wonderful Man Deeply In Love

Author:Jeanette MacDonald

“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”

People Whole Moments Character Remember Certain Opportunity Careers Affected

Author:Austin Peck

“I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.”

Feels Years Has Beens Opportunity Given Careers Team Fans Return Organization Blessed Excited Nba Very Happy Honored Enthusiastic Joining

Author:Eric Snow

“I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.”

Thinking Want Ends Careers Athlete Injury

Author:Jayson Williams

“If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.”

Ifs Thinking Different Whole Careers Changed Beer Bottles Heels Changed My Life Achilles Vodka Achilles Heel

Author:Jayson Williams

“Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.”

World Prayer Decision Careers Changing The World

Author:David Wolpe

“Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.”

Decision Careers Inspire Members Thirds Misery Satisfaction Inspire Others

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The best advice that anyone can give you for choosing a specific career is never to accept someone else's advice. Indeed, one of the biggest reasons for choosing the career you have chosen should be that no one told you to.”

Inspirational Giving Should Reason Accepting Careers Advice Chosen Best Advice

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable? What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it? What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them? Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members?”

Ifs Inspirational Universe House Enjoy Sleep Answers Interesting Careers Members Following Possession Miserable Only Time Stressed Free Time Stressed Out

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”

Life Wells Has Beens Lying Evil Lost Deals Company Careers Plans Crime Chosen Reputation Fallen Damage Gossip Idle Ruined Vicious Rumor Slander Devastated Malicious Idle Gossip Ruined Life

Author:Wayne D. Dosick

“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.”

“It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.”

Wells Matter Success Careers Buddhism Mindfulness Exciting Empowering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.”

People Hands Success Careers Buddhism Excuse Karma Dirty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.”

Years Jobs Mother Father Careers Successful Scientist Professors Physicians Mother And Father Successful Career

Author:David Plotz

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Careers Doctors Lawyer Public Service

Author:Dana Perino

“As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.”

People Able Careers Path Focus Goes On Comfortable Starting Make Sense Career Path Time Goes On

Author:George Clooney

“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.”

People Want Persons Care Young Energy Grows Class Careers Economy Cutting Middle Policy College Taxes Health Care Lifts Middle Class Wages Tax Cuts New Energy

Author:Barack Obama

“My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.”

Whole Girl Careers

Author:Renee Fleming

“I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.”

Way Reading Decision Careers Media Scripts

Author:Jessica Pare

“I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.”

Whole Actors Careers Lucky Great Actors

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.”

Enjoy Careers Successful Lucky

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Life and career kind of catches up with you.”

Kind Careers

Author:Duncan Jones

“I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.”

People Play Careers Happened Lucky Good People

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.”

Knows Careers Bipolar Facets Schizophrenic

Author:Jeff Daniels

“For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.”

Trying Littles Careers Little Things

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.”

Careers Truth Is Clown Truth Be Told

Author:Lizz Winstead

“I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.”

Thinking Next Careers Roles Busy Veins Too Busy

Author:John Travolta

“I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I did to put myself in Will Lexington's shoes absolutely led me to believe that it would ruin his career. Meanwhile, I was getting lots of supportive messages saying, "Will Lexington should just come out! It's 2015 already, audiences are going to embrace it!"”

Should Believe Country Artist Careers Audience Messages Embrace Shoes Ruins Experts Supportive Lexington Country Artist

Author:Chris Carmack

“I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.”

School Careers High School Moved Pursued

Author:Skylar Grey

“I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.”

People Doe Important Matter Whole Hands Fall Leader Vision Careers Hard Work Harder All Time Empires Falling Apart Going To Work Work Harder

Author:Skylar Grey

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.”

“They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.”

Thinking Careers Crime Design Died Guilt Faults Depth Deceiving Begets Commencement

Author:Robert Southey

“I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.”

Body Together Stuff Careers Bones Glue

Author:Sylvester Stallone

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