#professional

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#help #only #professional #professional writer #reason

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#level #money #other #played #playing

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#actually #begin #i #professionally #until

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#comfort #doubt #expressions #intercourse #job

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#box #challenges #did #felt #highest

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#developer #leaving #long #people #professional

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#care #company #decisions #health #health care

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#going #i #loved #movies #professional