Profession Quotes - Page 39

• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Writing, Agonizing, Difficult

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Twins”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

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• Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

  Will Oldham

  Song, Writing, Interaction With Others

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Men

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• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Acting is an empty and useless profession.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Acting, April

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

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• The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

  Dennis Lehane

  People, Creative, Entering

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• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

  Abraham Polonsky

  Children, Growing Up, Nice

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

  Bill Parcells

  Football, Guy, Looks

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• I never thought of politics as a profession.

  George Papandreou

  "Greece prepares for departure of George Papandreou" by David Gow, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Body, Juniors, Scientist

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• Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

  Michael Polanyi

  Men, Body, Doe

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• My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mom, Teacher, Needs

  "Condi Rice: 'When A Nation Loses Control Of Its Finances, It Loses Control Of Its Destiny'". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

  Joely Richardson

  Thinking, Careers, Debt

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

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• Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Generations, Pilots, Found

  "'Miracle on Hudson' pilot retires" by Marnie Hunter, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2010.

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

  Frederick Sanger

  Father, Careers, Medicine

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• Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

  Jaron Lanier

  Powerful, Class, Musician

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• Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

  Michael Shannon

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

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• I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

  Nick Stahl

  Men, Thinking, Actors

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• It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

  Audrey Tautou

  Might, Likes, Limelight

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• When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

  Mo Yan

  Important, Doe, Literature

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

  Don McLean

  Guitar, Play, Family And Friends

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