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ELEANOR MONDALE When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was goi... WILLIAM H. MACY When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently. CRAIG GROESCHEL I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I ... JIM EVANS It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn... CANDACE PARKER That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feelin... DAISUKE MATSUZAKA I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world ... MARVIN HAMLISCH I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ... TOM WALSH I was never really a career woman. My life always came first. CARRIE SNODGRESS I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an... MAX SCHNEIDER I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care... FRED FUNK I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping ... BOB LILLY The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a... ORSON SCOTT CARD And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled ... CHERYL TIEGS The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ... LARRY FOOTE When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar r... BILLY HERMAN This fight is No. 1 in my career. Joe Mesi was the most important fight of my career when I was figh... MONTE BARRETT Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seri... AARON ECKHART It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... PAULO COELHO I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized... WILLIE AAMES I was very much afraid that by coming forward it was going to affect my career. That's what I was wo... MONTEL WILLIAMS When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k... YOKO ONO It was real fun. I was more out of shape than I thought I was. The first half I started out bad. But... LADERRICK SATTERWHITE For the first time in my career last night, I started thinking more about the [opposing] pitcher tha... BRIAN COOPER I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... JENNA USHKOWITZ I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career fi... MACKLEMORE Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me. VIKRAM CHATWAL This is perhaps the most valuable and memorable hundred for me in my career. I was under pressure in... YOUNIS KHAN When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a... ADAM BEACH The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties... TONY BENNETT I was never really a career woman, you see. My life always came first. When I got nominated for 'Dia... CARRIE SNODGRESS When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there. GABRIEL MANN At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis p... OLEG CASSINI Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Sel... BOMAN IRANI I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that pers... CARLA GUGINO I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing ph... ELLIE GOULDING Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mista... VAL MCDERMID Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, ... JENNIFER PAHLKA When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing h... CHRIS CARPENTER When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ... AL YANKOVIC I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost... GERTRUDE B. ELION I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, ... J. COLE The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine... ANDY GIBB I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After ... RICKY SKAGGS While working hard for my career, I looked after my family and have been there for my mother and in-... CHANDA KOCHHAR It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... 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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ... GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing... GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar... GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco... GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use. GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o... GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay... GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an... GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we... GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ... GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa... GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require... GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i... GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ... GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume... GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma... GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t... GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. GEORGE ORWELL