You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
It used to be that if you got on 'The Tonight Show,' your career was made. Now, if you're on 'The Tonight Show,' maybe 14 more people show up to your gig in Tulsa.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.
Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be discovered and build their careers.
I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.
There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
