I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.
I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes!
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.
Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.
I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
