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Lipgloss is my calling! -- Vanessa Hudgens
Medicine has always been my calling. -- Mehmet Oz
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. -- Patti Smith
Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling. -- Bobby Bowden
Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways. -- Dominique Moceanu
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. -- Alice Sebold
My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling. -- Danielle de Niese
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. -- Jim Wallis
Acting is my calling, not my career. -- Angela Bassett
Money or no money, acting is my calling -- Claire Danes
I received my calling and accepted it at around 18. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling. -- Luci Shaw
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator. -- Victor Hugo
It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me. -- Kit Williamson
I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. -- Cornel West
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. -- Wole Soyinka
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. -- Macaulay Culkin
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter. -- Hunter S. Thompson
This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives. -- Reggie Bush
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. -- David Belasco
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career. -- Angela Bassett
Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother. -- Michael Hyatt
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. -- Emma Watson
"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling. -- Brian Bird
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling. -- Junot Diaz
Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world. -- Roma Downey
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. -- Will Smith
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity. -- Twyla Tharp
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself. -- Jim Wallis
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. -- T. E. Brown
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. -- T. E. Brown
I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger. -- Bruce Wilkinson
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... -- Chris Bohjalian
For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend. -- Robbie Robertson
For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend. -- Robbie Robertson
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling. -- Ryan Guzman
When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling. -- Quentin Tarantino
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted. -- Barry Zito
I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it. -- Zachary Cole Smith
I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling. -- Robert Reed
It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day. -- Tommy Lee Jones
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid. -- Katey Sagal
He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and control. I was smitten. You mean that rather than leaning and holding, I could spend my career predicting and controlling? I had found my calling. -- Brene Brown
As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things. -- Kiki Smith
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure. -- Patti Smith
You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. -- Jim Harrison
I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me. -- Jeremy Scott
For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow. -- Emma Caulfield
Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way! -- Mark Batterson
I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up. -- Tila Tequila
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! -- Susan Orlean
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do. -- Morten Tyldum
Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform. -- Fernando Pessoa
I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college. -- Criss Angel
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. -- Paulina Porizkova
I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy. -- Melissa Joan Hart
I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me. -- Jurnee Smollett
Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. -- William Standish Knowles
I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling. -- Abigail Disney
I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day. -- Richard Simmons
I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name. -- Jennifer McMahon
Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut. -- Jane Pauley
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people. -- Janet Jackson
No one in my circle calls me 'Travis.' Even my family, at a young age started calling me 'Travie.' So I want people to feel comfortable calling me 'Travie.' It's almost like inviting people in. -- Travie McCoy
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don't know. Maybe [sex-ed] is my new calling? -- Jen Kirkman
I found my life's calling when you spoke my name. -- John Michael Montgomery
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. -- Stirling Moss
My account is paid in full. So, why are you calling me? -- Jon Jones
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. -- Abraham Maslow
My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything, -- Earl Lloyd
I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch -- Jack Nicholson
I've found my true calling in life, and I'm living life on my terms. -- Kai Greene
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back. -- Amy Hempel
As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. -- Rachel Held Evans
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. -- Anais Nin
Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. -- Rumi
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me. -- Ellie Goulding
Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe -- George Michael
Iâ??m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. -- Anais Nin
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance. -- Victoria Moran
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests. -- Kyle Kinane
I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing. -- John Corwin
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. -- Susan B. Anthony
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. -- Elizabeth Reyes
'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut. -- Jane Pauley
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me -- Elvis Presley
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. -- John Legend
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer. -- Samuel Pepys
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. -- Simone Elkeles
I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can. -- DeVon Franklin
I've been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that. -- Joe Biden
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. -- Marianne Moore
The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money. -- Rand Paul
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. -- Lauren Hutton
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. -- Dennis Rodman
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. -- Gunther Schuller
I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling. -- Carol Burnett
Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. -- Shaggy
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. -- Robert Breault
I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me. -- Deon Cole
I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money. -- Russell Simmons
My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us. -- Billy Graham
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. -- Jim Bakker
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion. -- Shakira
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing. -- Renee Fleming
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore. -- Steve Perry
I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name. -- Katy Perry
If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling. -- Milarepa
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? -- Clara Schumann
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling. -- Nina Conti
I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything. -- Paul Buchheit

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