"I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing."
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"One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges."
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"I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but a period of her career where she really still had her voice. She had that deep wisdom that we've come to associate her with. To me, that's her at the height of her powers."
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"There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story."
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"The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career."
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"Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid."
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"I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness."
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"My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master."
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"I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare."
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"I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same."
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"The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way."
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"There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever."
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"I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done."
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"I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me."
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"Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career."
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"I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career."
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"I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me."
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"There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated."
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"Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost."
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"My career has been over since 1990."
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