I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out.
All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
Christopher McCandless: Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
