“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.” TryingYearsLongI CanFeelingsBodyNaturalCareersLateFeel GoodGet BetterBest Year Author:David Ortiz
“Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.” WellsLongStarsTalkingCareersPrivilegeHepburnLong CareersKatherine Hepburn Author:Mark Rydell
“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.” PeopleFeelsLongHas BeensDifferentAbleFilmCareersComedyTelevisionInspireDramaBlessedScriptsDifferent ThingsGood PeopleBack And ForthBounce Author:Geoff Stults
“What I wanted more than anything was a long career.” LongWantedCareersLong Careers Author:Terence Stamp
“Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?” KnowsLongHas BeensShowsLastsCareersKnow HowHealthyBlessedShow BusinessFickle Author:Tamara Tunie
“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.” LongWantedCareersLong TimePicks Author:Holland Taylor
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.” LongImportantMomentsPoliticalGivenCareersModernFrontsLuckyJournalismSeatsPolitical LifeLong CareersImportant Moments Author:Judy Woodruff
“I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.” LongHardFilmTermChanceMy OwnCareersLong TimeFeatures Author:Duncan Jones
“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.” LongHardRunningPastYoungCareersHavensSmartActressesLong RunsItemsProvocativeEditorials Author:Allison Williams
“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.” WorldHumansLongSelfProblemCoursesCareersRightsEconomicCenturyRacismSolutionsDeterminationThirdsInternationalHuman RightsCommunismPropagandaSelf DeterminationSolidarityIntegrationTwentieth CenturyScholarshipThird World Author:David Levering Lewis
“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.” WayWantLongCareersGoing AwayLong Careers Author:Chris Cornell
“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.” PeopleThinkingLongHardHelpingSeemsWantedPastDealsCareersAdversityRosyLong Careers Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.” FeelsLongCareersComfortableLong TimeTheatreBackgrounds Author:Ann Dowd
“I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.” TryingLongTermAbilityCareersSkillsLong Term Author:Martha Wainwright
“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.” TryingKindLongI CanDifferentVoiceStepsCareersSingingDifferent KindsHaulSopranosLong Haul Author:Victoria Clark
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLongMotherPayAttentionCareersFocusPeriodsIntenseLong Periods Of TimeProfessional Career Author:David Plotz
“Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.” WellsMeanLittlesLongPlayCitiesCareersTeamFansFieldsHonorLong TimeLeagueNflMy TimeRelevantStellarBroncos Author:Pat Bowlen
“I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.” LongDoneBigsCareersRecordsAirIndiaRainbowLong Careers Author:Terry Riley
“I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.” BelieveLongCareersGrewGrew UpLong TimeAspectThrust Author:Angelina Jolie
“I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.” LongStoriesAbleFilmOpportunityCareersWonderfulVery HappySelective Author:Angelina Jolie
“My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.” WorldWantFeelsLongCountryDoneWholeCareCareersShareWhole WorldCanadaEcstasySurveysExhibitionsManiaZestLong Careers Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.” ThinkingNeedsYearsMeanLongGovernmentCertainCareersCitizensPoliticianOfficeNow And ThenSkepticismAssociatesSixteenPublic Office Author:Ronald Reagan
“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.” WantLongStillsCareersMinutesFameLong TimeFlashMusic BusinessCrowMelissa Author:Cheyenne Kimball