"All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions."
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"I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm twenty - that's how you know you're really hot. I'd rather have a long respected career."
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"I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice."
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"I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career."
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"Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it."
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"My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan."
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"I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games."
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"Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life."
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"We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy."
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"When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career."
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"Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all."
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"Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s."
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"Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families."
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"This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me."
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"I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility."
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"When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable."
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"I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy."
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"You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence."
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"My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be."
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"The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness."
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