#chosen

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#chosen #doing #films #love #maybe

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#bad #bad example #chosen #example #i

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#better #chosen #crazy #i #insanity

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#bring #chore #chosen #course #glory

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. ↗

— John M. Ford

#characters #chosen #concentrating #effect #fictional

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#line #men #one line #stuck #succeeded

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#adopted #again #aunt #because #being