#profession

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#company #during #encouraged #ended #first

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis. ↗

— Jim Courier

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #been #being

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#example #football #form #fundamentally #i

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#business #egocentric #embarrassing #go #into

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

#professions #singing #skills #storytelling #wales

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#children #love #popular #professionals #public

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get. ↗

— Robert Kirby

#giving #mark #more #professional #than

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people. ↗

— Jack Kelley

#being #being in love #different #different kinds #get

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie. ↗

— Louis Malle

#any #boy #destroyed #feel #further