#profess

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#crews #drama #full #important #industry

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#actor #became #i #professional #started

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ball #by the time #each #field #games

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#college #first #go #i #professionally

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#i #incredibly #kind #person #professional

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bit #certainly #compared #couple #dinner

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bred #club #comedy #comedy club #comics

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#being #friendly #gone #had #leap