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• Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're unattractive, they are presumed to have chosen a profession because they could not get a man.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Unattractive, Way

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho

  Marriage, Girl, Strong

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• Living is a hazardous profession.

  Tobsha Learner

  Life

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• When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

  Masiela Lusha

  Heart, Acting, Selfless

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• I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Integrity, Intention

  Elizabeth Inchbald (1808). “The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry”

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• It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

  James Sharp

  Principles, Our Actions, Honest

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• In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

  Francois Magendie

  Simple, Play, Physicians

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• Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

  Louella Parsons

  Reflection, Mirrors, Kind

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• Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Challenges, Acting, Way

  "Turning 50? It's better than the alternative" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Doe, Who We Are

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

  Cate Blanchett

  Lucky

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• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  J. G. Ballard

  Nursing, Race, Doors

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Acting, Actors, Vocation

  speech at the opening ceremony for Chekhov Studio International, Los Angeles, 2009.

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• My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as Im in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

  David Harewood

  Wise, Worry, Parent

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• I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Jobs, Motivation

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• Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

  Horace

  Men, Pleasure, Every Man

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• It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Practice, Judging, Bed

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

  Samuel Johnson

  Elegance, Manners, Mark

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.105

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• Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

  Orson Welles

  Ignorance, Equal, Careful

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

  Robert Stack

  Party, Guests, Cocktails

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• Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

  Criss Angel

  Children, Thinking, Magic

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• Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Stars, Groups, Essentials

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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• What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Issues, Intellectual

  "Reinventing the city: An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, www.csmonitor.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Writing, Different, Should

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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