#careers

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#careers #writers #faith

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. ↗

— John Osborne

#beliefs #careers #doing #first #give

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#men

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#build #careers #feisty #get #go

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#careers #cubs #giants #help #just

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'. ↗

— Debra Winger

#big #big picture #careers #good #i

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. ↗

— Don Henley

#breakup #careers #famous #frightening #groups

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers. ↗

— John Hewson

#both #careers #either #establish #had

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#careers #comedians #heavy #know #lady