"We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE."
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"One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over."
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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
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"It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade."
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"I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."
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"I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage."
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"A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career."
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"The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved."
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"I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place."
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"Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip."
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"I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation."
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"When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time."
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"People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy."
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"Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business."
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"There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is. ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold."
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"German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state."
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"I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career."
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"I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in."
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"A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself."
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"The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now."
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