Quotes About Career

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.

When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market.

I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.

I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't earn a lot of money. It's a precarious existence and my mum didn't work, so dad sold paintings.

I remember in 2016 when I got signed to my record label Good Soldier, which is a very small indie label. They took a big risk on me because ballads were the furthest thing from cool at the time.

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

You wouldnt believe how much I got paid for Soldier Soldier after a TV exec drunkenly told me that they couldnt make it without me.

I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

I've been very lucky to work with great filmmakers. But I think my days of just freely acting regularly, that being my sole creative fulfillment, are gone.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

I used to work in a maternity shop when I was at college. But I started baby-sitting in the evenings. I started then to professionally nanny full time, sole charge, when I was 18. I finished college, and then I didn't go on to do anything else. I started to professionally help families, and I chose not to go to training for professional nannies.

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

I got my first break in 'Bhootnath,' solely on my credit, and went on to sing for around 20 films for all the leading music composers.

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.

I always knew that I will have to find my own way in the industry. My father had told me that making a mark in Bollywood will be solely my fight.

More teams are trying to go full-time, so it gives everyone the best chance possible to be the best footballer they can be, which makes it more appealing to fans, because we're better as we focus solely on the game as our job.