If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don’t think my career would have taken off. I wouldn’t have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. – Pete Fountain
I’d always loved writing, in the same way that I’d loved painting. I wouldn’t have seen it as a career. – Robyn Davidson
To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney’s career as a successful businessman. – Reince Priebus
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in. – Olivia Wilde
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career. – Raekwon
We’ve been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play ‘My Girl’ with the large string section, I want to turn around and look. – Otis Williams
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. – Phil Hartman
I’ve had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love. – Patty Loveless
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you’ve won the jackpot. – Romola Garai
If you look at my career, I’ve never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. – Ruud Gullit
Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. – Orison Swett Marden
I’m a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio’s career. I love the path that he’s taken. He seems to be very conscious of exactly what kind of project he wants for the following part of his career. – Roberto Aguire
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside – try to be someone I wasn’t to get ahead. – Randy Harrison
You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go. – Penelope Wilton
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes. – Robert Dallek
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it’s for our family, but it almost never is. It’s about us. It’s just some of us can pretend better than others. – Paul Haggis
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that’s something you’re always aware of as a writer. – Paolo Bacigalupi
I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career. – Shemar Moore
It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day. – Ron White
It’s really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you’re not the flavor of the month anymore; you’re not in demand. – Robby Benson
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread. – Rafael Palmeiro
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either. – Phil Hartman
This means a lot. I’m being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career. – Patrick Ewing
