"I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant."
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"It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience."
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"And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California."
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"One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest."
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"I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on."
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"When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody."
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"As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas."
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"I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good."
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"Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are."
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"I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective."
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"I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business."
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"I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career."
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"Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career]."
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"Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up."
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"I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career."
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"Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community."
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"I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them."
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"When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened."
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"I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense."
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"That was probably one of the things that if I look back at my career and say what is something I would try and do a little bit differently, I’d try and be a little bit more loose playing the game. Have a little more fun doing it."
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