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"For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me."
"The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan."
"I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career."
"It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story."
"I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey."
"Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing."
"This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career."
"I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted."
"Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer."
"Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success."
"It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky."
"Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been."
"I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing."
"I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career."
"Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience."
"I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that."
"If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across."
"The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them."
"It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care."
"Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it."
