“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.” ThinkingFirstsKindArtI CanSchoolFilmCareersYeahStemStumbling Author:Karen O
“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.” FirstsCareersBills Author:Aaron Paul
“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.” WayFirstsPlayGuyClassCareersEnglandCricketFirst ClassWatersheds Author:Andy Pick
“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.” IfsWantNeedsTryingFirstsTwoShowsSeemsPoliticalCareersRolesConcernIslamObviousDividesRelevantBefore And After Author:Daniel Pipes
“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.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsSaidStillsBookHelpingStoriesWould BeCausesAnimalCareersStrangeReturnOfficeDoctorsWelfareMy TimeVolunteerAnimal WelfareVeterinarianStrange Stories Author:James Rollins
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.” FirstsActorsCareersStartingAccustomed Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.” FirstsI CanMy OwnCareersFirst TimeLabels Author:Shelby Lynne
“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsStillsHelpingRememberCareersFourHappenedNewsGive MeScriptsCreditContractsFour YearsGood News Author:Leslie Moonves
“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.” PeopleFeelsFirstsKindMeanRomanceFictionCareersReaderStorytellingFascinatedStoryteller Author:Debbie Macomber
“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.” FirstsActorsDealsCareersWeight Author:Sara Rue
“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.” PeopleMenFirstsHas BeensMadeDoneWholeFallWaitingCareersFirst TimeSickCourt Author:Allen Iverson
“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.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsCareersAudienceRocksOriginalsFolksTrackGenreAbandonSixtyMuseBeatenListening To Music Author:Dar Williams
“I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.” KnowsTryingFirstsRealizingCareersSawsGoes OnFirst TimePursueThis LifeLive Your LifeKnow YourselfLife Goes On Author:Nicholas D'Agosto
“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, "My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.” ThinkingFirstsLeftAttitudeCareersOfficeUniversityDearBoardsInterviewsPrivate Sector Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.” PeopleFirstsSometimesCareersAlbums Author:Peter Asher
“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.” FirstsSchoolSportsCareersCollegePaperPagesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsUnusualEditorials Author:Buzz Bissinger
“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.” FirstsTwoLastsTurnsThreeChallengesCareersMiddleVictoryCornersFinishedBrokeFlagsJuneTunnelsLanesTop 10Checkered Author:Tony Stewart
“The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.” FirstsBoysCareersEssentialsCapableEnjoymentRelish Author:Charles M. Schwab
“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.” MenFirstsHas BeensWarYoungCareersNeededMy FamilyExcitingCuriosityCuriousJournalistYoung ManAffectedGlamorous Author:Sebastian Junger
“I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.” YearsFirstsCareersBuiltNegativeInterviewsReviews Author:John Waters
“I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.” FirstsLittlesMadeBitsCareersIssuesMaterialsLittle BitFirst TimeNervesPostersBikinisPosingSwimsuits Author:Cindy Margolis
“I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.” KnowsWantFirstsChildrenActingCareersConcernedPursueCraftsJust BeingWoe Author:Blake Lively
“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.” FirstsI CanTwoWholeFactsShowsRememberNightChoicesGivenWishCareersPerformancesCriticsEvening Author:Richard McCabe
“[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.” KnowsFirstsHardDreamBigsWould BeCareersHugeGreenPopsListsSingersHeightThroatCubaLumpsProfessional Career Author:Gloria Estefan
“I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsHas BeensWould BeSoundInterestingDealsCareersCasesRecordsMinesGoldVersionsLoserIndicationPlatinum Author:Beck
“Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.” FeelsYearsFirstsMadeTwoImportantPlayMomentsFactsTogetherJoySidesRoomsCareersShotsFirst TimeEncouragementSevenProductionsCleverNervousMade ItEaseOfficialsTerrifiedSeven YearsPottersAugustImportant MomentsTutelage Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“But, as potentially the first African American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?” FirstsSometimesEnoughCareersToo MuchFocusMomConversationAngryAfrican AmericanLoudRootedSpeculationFirst LadyCareer WomenMisperception Author:Michelle Obama
“The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsYoungGuyGamesSportsCareersTeamSticksYoung Guys Author:Mario Lemieux
“When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.” FirstsSuccessPayCareersBuddhismFantasticFedsMonkDonationMonasteriesUpkeep Author:Frederick Lenz
“I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.” KnowsFirstsChanceCareersRiskFirst TimeFilmmakerAmbitiousTake A ChanceChance And Risk Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.” FirstsSaidArtistDiesCareersCreativeHardestInevitability Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."” YearsFirstsWellsMeanSaidGuyWaitingCareersFiveMinutesFive YearsTattooThey SaidBad GuysInmatesMean Guy Author:Danny Trejo
“My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.” IfsFirstsCareersPiecesAdviceFiguresCareer AdviceGifting Author:Michelle Singletary
“I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.” FirstsWould BeParentCareersStandardsAmbitious Author:Mindy Kaling
“Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.” TryingFirstsTwoCareersSeasonsLet Me Author:Bo Jackson
“I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsArtFilmCareersGenerationsExpectationsDoctorsScaredLawyerPursuitPursueEngineersInitials Author:Terry Gross
“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction” WritingFirstsMomentsEarthLastsMotherGivenCareersNovelHappenedWindMonthsWestSatisfactionEastSignificantFortyHousewifeManuscriptsLife HappensGood Earth Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.” FirstsCareersBabyHusbandWhy NotSixtyYour HusbandFirst Baby Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” PeopleWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsOrderSidesCareersSupportConflictHappyWhat You WantMore MoneyReverseBeing HappyBackwardsPursuit Of HappinessTrue HappinessGreat HappinessNot HappyLife HappinessReally HappyHappy PeopleTrue YouInner HappinessBe Who You AreJust Be HappyFeeling HappyTrianglesWant To Be HappyLife And HappinessSelf HappinessInspirations Being YourselfWhat Is HappinessMoney HappinessInspirational CareerOthers HappinessHappier LifeHappy ThingsLive HappyBeing Happy With LifeTrying To Be HappyI Just Want To Be HappyI Want To Be HappyBeing Yourself And HappyHappy With My LifeJust Want To Be HappyBe True To Who You AreCreating Your Life Author:Shakti Gawain
“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.” FeelsFirstsLeftMusicCareersStageFirst TimeConcertsFrightNervousnessStage Fright Author:Pablo Casals
“My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.” YearsFirstsTogetherClassCareersFourInspiredBalletFour YearsBe InspiredBallet Class Author:Misty Copeland
“Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.” KnowsYearsFirstsPlayGivenEnjoyCareersAdviceYears AgoBest AdviceMaradona Author:Lionel Messi
“This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.” WorldFirstsWantedJobsFatherMoneyCareersAdviceNeededBe GoodUnemployedGood AdvicePaychecksRoller CoasterCoastersTop Of The World Author:Joss Whedon
“This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.” YearsFirstsCareersRoundsFourthHighlights Author:Arthur Ashe
“I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.” FirstsStatesWholeGuyStrongUnitedCareersUnited StatesBillsSenateIntroducingSupporterFinancing Author:Joe Biden
“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.” FirstsHalfMusicCareersSingersExtendingTrimming Author:Ethan Mordden
“Finding your passion is like finding your career soul mate. You 'date around' a bit, trying various jobs, but one day you find something you love so much you wanna marry it and see it every morning before your first cup of coffee.” TryingFirstsSoulJobsPassionBitsCareersMorningOne DayFindingsVariousCoffeeCupsMatesEvery MorningSoul MateCoffee CupSomething You LoveFinding Your Passion Author:Emme
“I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.” ThinkingMindFirstsDoneVoiceCareersNew YorkAnimatedRadar Author:Jodi Benson