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Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young
Career Determination
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
Jon Secada
Career Education Music
It’s important to put all I have into my career.
Cliff Richard
Career
I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn’t have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
Brian Welch
Career Daughter Dying Money Now Right
And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.
Charlize Theron
Career People
I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.
Rose McGowan
Career
That’s such a thrill – a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it’s still packin’ the house.
Anne McCaffrey
Beginning Career
I’ve had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages – things most people don’t get the opportunity to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Career Opportunity People Travel Work
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don’t even care about my career anymore.
Ron Perlman
Age Care Career
There’s not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it’s very fortunate and a blessing for me.
Ryne Sandberg
Career
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
Career Music Singing
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It’s not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
Richard Harris
Career Choice Drugs Kids Money Selling
For most of my career, I’ve played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril
Career
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf
Career Film Mistakes Opportunity Woman Women
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
Tom Glazer
Career
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie
Career Family Life Women
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.
Miriam Makeba
Career Music
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
Alanis Morissette
Career Old Years
In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, ‘Have a little faith.’ In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.
Wentworth Miller
Actor Brother Career Faith
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Jessica Savitch
Career Effort Marriage
Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
Aaron Eckhart
Career Job Thought
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.
Herb Ritts
Career Job
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
Peter Snell
Career Circumstances Gold Idea Potential
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn’t leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I’d done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
John Polkinghorne
Career Science Years
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that’s part of the reason why I’ve had longevity.
Lenny Kravitz
Career Longevity Reason
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
Ginger Baker
Career
My agent said to me five years ago, ‘Hugh, I can see one day you… if I had to plan a goal for you, it’s for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.’
Hugh Jackman
Career Day Goal Years
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That’s how I treated my career. I didn’t think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Carl Yastrzemski
Baseball Career Play Talent
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn’t expect it to be a career because I didn’t believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn’t feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card
Being Career Money Writing
More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don’t happen in the studio.
Al Jarreau
Career
Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
Being Career Desire Education Man
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly
Career Death
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro
Career First Living Want
I’ve never looked at my career in terms of, What haven’t I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.
Kurt Russell
Career Want Work
I miss my singing career very much.
Elvis Presley
Career Singing
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren
Career God Will
I didn’t have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Career Film Idea
It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury
Career Soul Talent
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor’s Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Donna Rice
Actor Career Successful Television
I was just trying out and having some fun. I don’t think I’d want to pursue singing as a career; it’s an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can’t, that’s OK too.
William Hung
Career Fun Singing Trying Want
I haven’t accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that’s why I’m still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don’t know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I’ll know one day soon.
Mary Pierce
Career Day Want
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.
Leroy Chiao
Career Education Engineering
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door… Nobody has succeeded yet.
Ferdinand Piech
Career People
I never could have planned this, and now I’m in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I’m super happy with how everything’s going.
Shawn Ashmore
Career Life Now
And I didn’t, that’s why my career was very short lived.
Kitty Carlisle
Career
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
Career Man May Time
It’s hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
Alex Winter
Career
I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it’s important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage
Business Career Education Family Friends Job Life Living
Even now I can say I’d love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.
Steven Gerrard
Career Love Now
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I’ve written 75 books, so I’m better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
Caroline B. Cooney
Books Career Now Pretty Voice
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