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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Careers

"The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career]."

School Careers Smart
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Careers

"I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge."

Careers Creativity Judging
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Careers

"Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?"

Men Careers Average
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Careers

"I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist."

Thinking Careers Rocks
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Careers

"The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time."

People Important Careers
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Frank Stallone Actor, Musician
Careers

"I'm on social media a lot. It kind of revises or revives your career. Because of social media I get pictures and autographs from all over the place. If that wasn't around, people would wonder, "What's Frank Stallone up to?" Now they can just got to YouTube and see a million things. It's quite a bit of fun."

Fun Careers Media
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
Careers

"I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood."

School Careers Hollywood
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Careers

"I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests."

Mind Careers Garden
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Careers

"When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags."

Careers California Price Tag
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Graham Nelson Game Designer
Careers

"What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this."

Player Careers Decision
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Leona Lewis Singer-songwriter
Careers

"I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now."

Believe Careers Platforms
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Leonardo DiCaprio Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
Careers

"I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success."

World Careers Scripts
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Fred Wilson Artist, Curator
Careers

"My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new."

Years Long Careers
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Keri Russell Actress
Careers

"I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age."

Thinking Years Careers
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Careers

"What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group."

Nice Careers Skills
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