#career

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#careers #writers #faith

My family and I built my whole career from scratch. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#career #family #i #scratch #whole

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#cut #i #obviously #shorter #than

The truth will only be told over a career. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#only #over #told #truth #will

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#campuses #career #combine #family #get

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little. ↗

— James Stewart

#career #had #i #little #maybe

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#career #comics #form #i #reinvent

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is. ↗

— Joel McHale

#agent #career #control #good #hard

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers. ↗

— China Chow

#artists #careers #contemporary #contemporary art #doing