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“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.”

“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.”

Ifs Looks Stills Stories Age Actors Careers Males Gender Inequality Massive Centre Hesitation Trajectory Hiatus

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.”

Ifs World Stills I Can Ends Home Careers Baseball End Of The World Appreciative Baseball Love

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“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.”

People Giving Years Firsts Stills Helping Remember Careers Four Happened News Give Me Scripts Credit Contracts Four Years Good News

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.”

Want Trying Stills Opportunity Grows Careers Get Better

Author:Scoot McNairy

“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

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

Trying Stills Acting Careers College Tough

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“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'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.”

Way Years Stills Today Careers Fine Organization Brave Live For Today Cardinals Atlanta Best Year Cubs

Author:Bruce Sutter

“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.”

People Made Stills Whole Young Artist Careers Whole Life Acoustics Mellow Crosby

Author:Dave Grohl

“I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.”

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Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.”

Thinking Trying Stills I Can Done Wanted Careers Imagine Profession Not Sure

Book:A Peter Gzowski Reader

Source: A Peter Gzowski Reader

“I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.”

Want Stills Real Difficult Careers Ambition Singing Singers Unusual Modest Unusual Things

Author:Lana Del Rey

“The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.”

Looks May Stills Different Country Matter Nations Careers Revolution Development Illusion Decided Contact Commerce Different Peoples Harbors Colonization Industrial Revolution

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“It's a horrible part of the game when you have to tell a player, probably somebody who has helped you win so much that his time is up. You treat them like family, and because they are your family it becomes even more hurting in the sense that you have got to say "well son, I'm sorry, you won't be a regular here, but you will still have a career elsewhere.' It's happened more than a few times but it is not an easy thing to handle.”

Wells Stills Games Winning Easy Hurt Careers Player Happened Son Treats Sorry Handle Horrible Our Family Elsewhere I'm Sorry Easy Things Like Family

Author:Alex Ferguson

“The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.”

People Want May Mean Doe Stills Jobs Careers Millions Constant Profession Good Work Longevity Doing Good Turnaround

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.”

Stills Hard Done Reality Together Causes Careers Becoming Empowerment Gender Empowering Working Together Empowering Women Gender Equality Becoming More Together We Can

Author:Madhuri Dixit

“I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.”

Ifs Stills Goal Careers Impossible Fields Particular Good Times Exploration Satisfying Having A Good Time

Author:Duane G. Carey

“Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.”

People Mind Mean Stills States Hands Artist Careers Majors Aspect Wake Up Independent Mindset Labels Being Afraid

Author:Yo Gotti

“I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.”

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Author:John Congleton

“I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.”

Writing Stills Chance Careers Humble Legacy Nfl Chapters Second Chance Super Bowl

Author:Darrelle Revis

“Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.”

People Needs Giving Mind Wells Littles Stills Helping Spiritual Fall Force Careers Creative Helpful Spiritual Life Impress Laundry

Author:Anne Lamott

“I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.”

Stills Careers Appreciate Longevity

Author:Diana Ross

“I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.”

Stills War Country Wanted Careers Military Corners Russia Officers

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now.”

Has Beens Stills Play Careers Influence Train Massive

Author:Jordan Henderson

“I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.”

Trying Wells Stills Kids Turns Careers Rap Wide Variety Hardcore Murphy Kids Movie

Author:Ice Cube

“I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.”

People Feels Stills Careers Fans

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.”

Knows Want Writing Mean Stills Home Grows Careers Growing Up Written Mom Late What You Want Too Late Kindergarten Never Too Late

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“Ive been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.”

Years Long Stills Careers Plans Fashion Design Long Time Models Transition Extensions Modeling Lingerie Fashion Model

Author:Alessandra Ambrosio

“Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.”

People Needs Stills Jobs Opportunity Pay Enemy Careers Smell Treated Pursue Paychecks

Author:Mike Rowe

“It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.”

People Years Wells Kind Stills Facts Process Enjoy Interesting Careers Changed Decided Shocking Never Change Clicks Weird Things Shocking Things

Author:Johnny Depp

“Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.”

Thinking Should Stills Fun Acting Careers

Author:Liana Liberato

“Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.”

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Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“It would be a nice way to finish my career by remembering that I batted cleanup in the game in which my team won the World Series. But I now am convinced that I can still help, and if the right situation presented itself, I would have to think seriously about it.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Stills I Can Helping Would Be Remember Games Situation Careers Nice Team Series Convinced World Series

Author:Darren Daulton

“You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!”

“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”

“They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.”

Persons Stills Whole Given Numbers Careers Changed Hundred

Author:Lou Whitaker

“Actually even at the beginning of my career, I never felt rejected. I was still working hard and believed in myself. I wasn't in a hurry and was picking and choosing projects carefully even then when I was just a newcomer. My attitude towards films hasn't changed even after these years.”

Years Stills Hard Film Felt Attitude Careers Changed Projects Rejected My Attitude Newcomers Picking And Choosing

Author:Katrina Kaif

“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.”

Ifs Years Children Stills Moments Body Lasts Turns Careers Your Body Dancer Injury Waking

Author:Amanda Schull

“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.”

Years Stills Felt Careers Four Rocks Missing College Band Europe Moved Ships Four Years Ireland Rock Bands Indie Rock

Author:Bill Watterson

“I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.”

Feels Trying Looks Stills Process Careers Manipulate

Author:Charlize Theron

“I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.”

Stills War Careers Built Wings Destroyed Airplane Korean Left Wing Korean War Most Favorite

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.”

Trying Stills Young Careers Support Stage Trade Magician Cartoonist Skater

Author:Jason Mraz

“Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.”

Writing Stills States Careers New York Instance Assembly New York State

Author:Mark Helprin

“I wouldn't count it out, but right now I feel like my career is still just starting. The best years are yet to come.”

Feels Years Stills Careers Right Now Starting Best Year

Author:Phil Ivey

“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.”

People Years Looks Littles Stills Happens Interest Mistake Careers Path Changed Strange Years Ago Things Happen Outlook Strange Things Career Path Animator

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”

Knows Looks Art Stills Ends Eye Artist Dark Careers Too Much Seeing Painting Safe Comfortable Tired Details Warm Blindness Needles Miniatures

Author:Ian McDonald

“My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.”

Looks Stills Remember Grows Careers Morning Right Now My Favorite Stomach Every Morning Tattoo

Author:Machine Gun Kelly

“Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.”

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Author:Madeline Hunter

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