Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

Arnon Goldfinger

Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and t...

David Henrie

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

Elisabeth Shue

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

Anthony Holden

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Jim Carrey

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Rob Lowe

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Yo Mama’s so ugly, when she joined an ugly contest, they said, “Sorry, no professionals.

155 World's Funniest YO MAMA Jokes

We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

Aftermath

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Was it wrong that I kind of wanted to do her right there? Okay, Kate. Be professional about this. Also you have a girlfriend. A girlfriend who can juggle cars.

Shadows & Dreams

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Your posture is the key to your personal and professional foundation.

My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

Last Witness

Life had become some kind of profound competition, where my emotional loss was substituted by my professional success. I became a part of what they call the rat race.

Seduced by Murder

When you get to know them, most professional fighters are big teddy bears. I say that having been beat up by a few stuffed animals.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Power Base Selling: Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I jus...

Gareth Bale

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine set...

George Cukor