#profess

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#choose #i #incredibly #lucky #me

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#divorced #feminist #i #i was born #like

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#boston #famous #found #go #i

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#established #i #life #move #move on

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good. ↗

— Julius Erving

#beginning #felt #first #found #game

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #been #brown #certain #certain way

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#before #comfortable #disciplined #his #jack

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#devoted #fifty #i #life #professional

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#biggest obstacle #changing #necessity #obstacle #professional