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• No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

  Irving Kaufman

  Law, Dynamics, Fruit

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• I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

  Jayson Blair

  Blow, Feels, Unfortunate

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• It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Accord, Great Happiness

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• Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Done, May

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• Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Thinking, Humanity

  Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub

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• I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

  Michael Moore

  School, Training, Film

  "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" Radio program, June 23, 2007.

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• In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Writing, Views, Play

  "Jeff Goldblum Discusses Law & Order: Criminal Intent". Conference call, movieweb.com. April 30, 2009.

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• There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Insulting, Directors

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So I'm always inspired by my fellow actors. And that's kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Together, Connections

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Confused, Perspective, Acting

  "Jesse Eisenberg on Hasidic Ecstasy Dealers, Facebook". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

  Andrew Garfield

  Actors, Remember, Autonomy

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Acting, Want, Miserable

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2011.

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• We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.

  Geena Davis

  Space, Female, Boards

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think.

  John Leguizamo

  New York, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Needs, Designer, Reaching

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

  Harry Partch

  Horse, Operations, Music Is

  Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Occupation

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• A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

  Edmund Wilson

  Country, Giving Up, Hands

  Edmund Wilson (1952). “The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties”

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• Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.

  Laura Poitras

  Commitment, Government, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

  Gloria Steinem

  Morning, Writing, Insecure

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• Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independence, Noble, Rhetoric

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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• Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Heart, Piano, Common Sense

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• I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

  Hans-Werner Sinn

  Party, Commitment, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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