Careers Quotes - Page 29

• I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Young, Continuing

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

  Brian Wilson

  Thinking, Long, Advancement

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• Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Phases, Muse

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• 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.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, Names, Hollywood

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, Mind

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Long, Investing

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Passion, People

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• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Marriage, Dog, Husband

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2005.

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• I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "Reese Witherspoon's New Passion". Interview with Abigail Pesta, www.marieclaire.com. January 11, 2008.

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• What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

  James Wolcott

  Dream, Ghetto, Dope

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• 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

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Fiction, Like Me

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• 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.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Focus, Special

  "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

  Tiger Woods

  Different, Lucky, Able

  Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Imagination, Feelings

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• The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, People, Irony

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Kids, Years, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

  Thom Yorke

  Made, Paranoid, Neurotic

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• Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

  Loretta Young

  Determination, Resumes, Courses

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• For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

  Helen Fisher

  Generations, Path, Changed

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• I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

  Romola Garai

  Acting, Lifetime, Achieve

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, Mind, Bollywood

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