#career

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

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

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AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#career #even #even now #finish #game

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#because #career #deal #fortunate #had

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at. ↗

— Gary Larson

#cow #entire #entire career #i #just

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business. ↗

— Ali Larter

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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. ↗

— John Lasseter

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