"Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did."
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"Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also."
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"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."
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"I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged."
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"I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now."
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"I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time."
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"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights."
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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
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"My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career."
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"I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove."
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"In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults."
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"Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that."
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"Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'."
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"Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners."
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"I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best."
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"I miss my singing career very much."
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"I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career."
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"In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career."
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"After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again."
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"The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it."
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