#professional

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#basically #because #equivalents #good #home

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian. ↗

— Will Durst

#course #glad #i #president #professional

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#about #always #did #i #i always

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#professionalism #work #art

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intelligence #professionalism #significance #vulnerability #intelligence

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#because #becoming #club #good #his

It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#became #because #distance #everyone #feel

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#given #irish #jobs #majority #members

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#aware #britain #british #challenges #civil

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#brought #comfort #companions #emotional #fine