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"I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't."
"Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman."
"Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first."
"Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from."
"I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore."
"To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career."
"Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first."
"Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance."
"I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career."
"I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career."
"She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life."
"I've enjoyed all the parts of my career."
"When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career."
"I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both."
"I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'"
"Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you."
"I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time."
"God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers."
"It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career."
"No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus."
