"As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger."
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"When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive."
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"In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it."
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"I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging."
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"If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens."
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"When I'm thinking about going on a date with some guy or considering liking him, it really doesn't matter what they do or how that affects my career."
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"A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts."
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"I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality."
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"I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you.""
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"After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride."
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"Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do."
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"It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor."
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"Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after."
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"I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case."
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"Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan."
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"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism."
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"For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays."
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"I mean, there's obviously only one Leo [DiCaprio] but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I'd like to have that type of career... that would be really great if I could have that."
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"I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me."
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"We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced."
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