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Career Quotes


"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."


"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."


"The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore."


"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."


"I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all."


"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."


"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."


"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."


"Getting fired from work is not a tragedy."


"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."


"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."


"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."


"I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career."


"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."


"I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more."


"The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be."


"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."


"I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!"


"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"


"If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens."


"I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting."


"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."


"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."


"I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed."


"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."


"I've got America's best writer for $300 a week."


"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."


"If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics."


"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."


"In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made."
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