Quotes About Commitment

When I was in Phoenix, people started noticing and looking every day to see what I was wearing, but it never really affected me. When you do this every day, it's just something you do. Even in Europe I was getting dressed up for every single game. Nobody may be watching but it's just me. It's how I live and it's how I move.

A lot of stuff has happened to me and Phoenix has always been there for me.

It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don't know where it takes you sometimes.

I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

I'd given my life and my soul to Kajagoogoo and then after a cheap phone call, it was all over. I did cry and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Anybody is entitled to break down under those circumstances.

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

I'm bad at returning phone calls.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

I started on the phones, taking orders, and then I did the toppings, making the pizzas, cutting and boxing them - everything, really.

When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.