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I had turned my anxiety into my profession. -- Francois Jacob
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby. -- Avi
I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. -- Karen Allen
That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations. -- Dean Stockwell
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B. -- Van Morrison
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession. -- Bella Abzug
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession. -- Marissa Mayer
What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. -- Robert Duvall
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really. -- Cate Blanchett
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession. -- Halle Berry
One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people. -- Gerard Depardieu
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. -- Shirley Bassey
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. -- William Hogarth
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. -- Vera Brittain
I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet. -- Lea Thompson
I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession. -- Jim Sullivan
It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out. -- Fritz Lang
Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Racing is been my profession since I was 19 years old. -- Danica Patrick
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. -- Abraham Lincoln
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot. -- Lawrence Bender
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life. -- Jose Mourinho
Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees. -- Bob Hope
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life. -- Hedy Lamarr
I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it. -- Mason Cooley
I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences. -- George Stroumboulopoulos
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. -- Peter Morgan
I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources. -- Jerry McNerney
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession. -- Vera Brittain
The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die. -- Candace Cameron
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike. -- Philippe Petit
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. -- Shuler Hensley
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. -- John Howe
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. -- Audrey Tautou
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession. -- Rick Dees
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it. -- Vidal Sassoon
From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. -- Leon Askin
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another. -- Anna Deavere Smith
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional. -- Andy Dick
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession. -- Deepika Padukone
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? -- Terry Pratchett
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism. -- Amit Kalantri
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title. -- Phil Jackson
As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life. -- Lysette Anthony
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music. -- Ronnie Spector
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea. -- Henry Adams
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. -- Ethel Merman
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. -- Josh Fox
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. -- Gerald Chertavian
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. -- Roland Barthes
I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly. -- Albert Einstein
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war. -- Brian Stann
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. -- Jennifer Lopez
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. -- George Ryan
I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic. -- Timur Bekmambetov
I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me. -- Jose Carreras
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things. -- Natalia Makarova
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties. -- Kay Boyle
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength. -- Manny Pacquiao
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. -- Joe Taslim
Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities. -- Debi Mazar
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces. -- Liv Ullmann
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish. -- Svetlana Zakharova
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. -- Lucas Papademos
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible. -- Ettore Sottsass
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. -- John Steinbeck
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress -- Gina Gershon
I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think. -- Michael Schumacher
As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease. -- Caldwell Esselstyn
I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line. -- Hans-Werner Sinn
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time. -- Magic Johnson
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. -- Kevin Costner
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there. -- Agatha Christie
Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession. -- Randeep Hooda
I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club... the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. -- Alison Gopnik
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. -- John Updike
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me. -- Rem Koolhaas
I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people. -- Gerard Depardieu
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth. -- Mika Brzezinski
In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens. -- Melanie Griffith
Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards. -- Zig Ziglar
Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me. -- Dave Camp
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous. -- Daniel Quinn
Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back. -- Susan Downey
My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis. -- Sheena Easton
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent. -- Oscar Wilde
I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done. -- Keith Rothfus
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here. -- Joyce Banda
I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me. -- Jane Badler
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area. -- Asa Larsson
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I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work. -- Wilt Chamberlain
I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary. -- Maria Conchita Alonso
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. -- Bella Abzug
My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career. -- Caroline Wozniacki
I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life. -- Shakira
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality. -- Sebastian Thrun
It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection. -- Cary Grant
I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world. -- Bruce Chatwin
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life -- Hillary Clinton
A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him. -- Moran Atias
I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done. -- Michael Johnson
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them. -- Moss Hart
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty. -- Gad Elmaleh
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me. -- Ian Frazier
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was. -- Jeffrey Skilling
It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return... -- Carl Jung
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing. -- Rokia Traore
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well. -- John Green
I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like. -- Miranda Richardson
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. -- Francesca Annis
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe. -- Vanessa Paradis
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. -- George Lucas
We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. -- Geoffrey Holder
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself. -- Rebecca West

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