“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’.” WritingWellsI CanDreamNextForgetCareersMorningWrittenWake UpDown AndTablesIncrediblesNonsenseUsualPurpleSockPads Author:George R. R. Martin
“My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.” ArtWantedMotherCareersHairPaperTablesProfessionKitchenPencilsKitchen TablePaper And Pencil Author:Alton Tobey
“In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.” ArtSuccessActorsWaitingCareersCreativeSpecialBuddhismDisciplineDrawsTablesActressesCreative ArtWaiting Tables Author:Frederick Lenz
“As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.” PeopleLittlesBitsSidesVoiceNaturalCareersParticularInvolvedLittle BitTablesMediumsExposedProgressionTrusting You Author:Chris Vance
“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!” PeopleGivingMindFallLeftPayHalfCareersGraceBuiltRootsLet MeGive MeTownsTablesEnvyRestaurantsLos AngelesSpectacularUnemployedBack AgainFalls From Grace Author:Mickey Rourke
“Most of my career is spent in a meeting... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.” IdeasCareersPlansTablesMeetingsMarketingNew IdeasReally GreatReally HappyNegotiatingMarketing Plans Author:Tyra Banks
“I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.” KnowsWantedWaitingCareersTablesComedic Author:Charlie Day
“I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.” CareersTablesAttributesFades Author:Fred Savage