Quotes About Profession

I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

What's wrong with sleeping with a lawyer? I asked.

Temeraire:) Can one hire a translator to say things properly? Yes; they are called lawyers, Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent, you will require SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE of the service, merchandise, or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune. Perhaps you may need much more specialized knowledge than you have the ability or the inclination to acquire, and if this should be true, you may bridge your weakness through the aid of your Master Mind group.

Let me remind you that you are talking to a professional in the craft of seduction, and this business of kissing is for amateurs and little old men in slippers. Real women are won over bit by bit.

Now I certainly had no intention of lying on the form, but I was trying to think of a creative way to make homemaker sound more important. Then the thought struck me: I am more concerned about the opinion of the individual who will read this questionnaire than I am about the approval of the One who has called me to be a homemaker. I had succumbed to worldly thinking rather than viewing my profession as the Bible portrays it—a high calling from God.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

The real Doctor Fitzpiers was a man of too many hobbies to show likelihood of rising to any great eminence in the profession he had chosen, or even to acquire any wide practice in the rural district he had marked out as his field of survey for the present.

A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

If I remember correctly, I called you an asshole doctor." "That's no more than the truth... except I'm not a proctologist.

Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn Don't