Quotes About Profession

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving Fisher - made public statements anticipating the Great Depression.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to be tempered with mercy.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

I don't have much time for the 'sad clown' thing. It's only associated with comedians because of the disparity between feeling like that and what we do for a living. I bet there are loads of sad bankers and sad dentists. We just don't notice because they aren't bringing that much joy to the world.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I am a novelist through and through.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.