“A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.” PeopleThinkingLooksBookDifferentJobsArtistCoursesCareersPagesRapperGood JobEmulatePacsBiggie Author:Ja Rule
“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
“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.” MenSeemsGirlCareersFashionParticularTypePagesMagazinesDamageCharmPsychicsEditorialsPlayboy Author:Alison Lurie
“You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.” ThinkingKnowsLastsNextCareersKnow HowWonderfulPagesDiverse Author:Jack Welch
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.” IfsLongTurnsFeltHoursBrainCareersCreativePagesLong AgoBe CreativeGood DayClicks Author:Dean Koontz
“When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.” FeelsLooksHas BeensHardCareersTelevisionLike YouTenPagesSeriesSevenDetailsSpeed Author:Sarah Paulson
“My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate to that. It was an early lesson for me that, if you're lucky enough, as I've been in my career thus far, to get really incredible iconic people to do your stuff, you want them to tell your story and you want them to be on page in the important moments, and they usually are.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsImportantEnoughMomentsStoriesJobsActorsStuffCareersLessonsLuckyPagesIncrediblesAnimationGet RealIconicPixarImportant Moments Author:Dan Fogelman
“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.” FirstsWellsBookSelfFeelingsDealsCareersDoubtPagesHundredOvercomingNew BooksSelf-doubt Author:Dean Koontz
“Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence.” WritingTwoSometimesFeelingsSidesCareersCreativeHappenedInfluencePagesDown AndRapThings HappenTwo ThingsThrownEloquenceCokeRatios Author:George Carlin
“I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.” YearsThreeNamesCareersReturnPagesHollywoodHeightUnexpectedThree YearsBucksHeathcliffStallions Author:Jasper Fforde