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Brad Williams Comedian
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"Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this."

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Bridgette Wilson Actress, Model
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"I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first."

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Brit Hume Journalist, Commentator
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"There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience."

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next."

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Ali MacGraw Actress
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"I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite."

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Ali MacGraw Actress
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"I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that."

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Ali Landry Actress
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"Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing."

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Ali MacGraw Actress
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"When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'"

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Allen Johnson Historian
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"I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career."

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Amos Lee Musician
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"As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't."

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
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"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period."

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