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• Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

  Christiane Amanpour

  People, United States, Don't Trust

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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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• Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

  Akhil Sharma

  Honesty, Voice, Doctors

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• It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Government, Two

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected papers ...”

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• Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

  Dick Cavett

  Art, Teaching, Years

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.130, Henry Holt and Company

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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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• I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

  Cy Coleman

  Get Better, Lucky

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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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• Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

  Moshe Safdie

  Architecture, Faster

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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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• Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

  Erland Josephson

  Strong, America, Sensual

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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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• Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

  Alexander Herzen

  Jobs, Law, Liberty

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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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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• Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Cooking, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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