Careers Quotes — Page 30

Harrison Ford

Actor

“I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.”

Careers Grateful Hot

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Francis Ford Coppola

Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

“It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.”

Careers Birthday Somewhere Else

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Lea Thompson

Actress

“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”

Thinking Play Careers

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Keanu Reeves

Actor, Producer

“You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.”

Character Play Careers

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .”

Men Careers Appreciation

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.”

Play Careers Emotional

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

Children Careers Motherhood

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Grant Morrison

Comic Book Writer, Novelist

“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.”

Cutting Careers Editors

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist

“I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.”

Opportunity Careers Fleeting

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Kid Rock

Musician, Actor

“Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.”

Done Careers Michigan

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Kiki Smith

Artist

“I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.”

Art Moving Careers

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Lennox Lewis

Professional Boxer

“The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.”

Fighting Careers Tyson

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