#profess

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. ↗

— James Tenney

#composers #kept #musicians #people #professional

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#forward #going #i #i am #looking

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all. ↗

— Armand Assante

#always #best #blessing #curse #i

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you. ↗

— William Friedkin

#film school #idea #informing #original #professional

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#anyone #become #happened #make #neurotic

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #any #conscious #fact #i

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#actually #been #doing #earn #give

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ↗

— Junior Seau

#beast #becomes #him #hockey #hockey player