In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
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.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
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.'
