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• The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Fashion, Hard Work

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• Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

  Les Wexner

  Growing Up, Parent, Shopkeepers

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Play, Would Be, Ends

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• I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.

  Cat Cora

  Passion, Thinking, Hands

  "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

  Bill Ayers

  Teaching, Issues, Justice

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• I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Growing Up, Grows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Ideas, Different, Stories

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• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  Stephen Dillane

  Feelings, Actors, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Jobs, Nice, Successful

  "'Murphy Brown' interview". Interview with Alan Carter, ew.com. May 15, 1992.

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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• I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

  Erland Josephson

  Real, Sweden, Accepted

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• As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Children, Doctors, Play

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• HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Medical Profession, Humour

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.663, Library of America

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• First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Pain, Science, Opportunity

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• The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Looks, Easy, Tricks

  "Morgan Freeman On Set Interview DOLPHIN TALE". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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• In limited professions there's boundless theft.

  William Shakespeare

  Theft, Boundless

  "Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.

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• Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Doctors, Two

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• I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Unique, Play

  Edvard Munch (1986). “Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch”

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  Sophia Loren

  Encouragement, Couple, Writing

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• It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.

  Art Buchwald

  Children, Growing Up, Silly

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

  Mary Oliver

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

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