#career

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#also #because #being #believe #career

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#career #classes #education #foundation #gave

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#could #eventually #i #idea #lost

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career? ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#botox #career #desirable #even #go

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#area #bay #bay area #career #excitement

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#constant #equate #fans #game #get

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete. ↗

— Joan Chen

#believe #care #career #children #complete

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. ↗

— Eric Church

#becomes #career #i #make #mistake

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged