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“Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.”
— Anna Chlumsky
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“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
— Jodie Foster
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“Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.”
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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“Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.”
— Sharon Stone
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“Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.”
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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“The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.”
— Bryan Cranston
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“Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.”
— Edward Norton
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“I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.”
— Ron Perlman
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“There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.”
— Wentworth Miller
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“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”
— Fiona Shaw
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“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
— Howard Nemerov
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“In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.”
— Marc Jacobs
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“I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.”
— Bryan Cranston
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“I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.”
— Orlando Bloom
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“I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.”
— Saul Bellow
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“How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?”
— Marlee Matlin
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“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.”
— Chris Evans
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“I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.”
— Jodi Picoult
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“I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.”
— Anthony Kiedis
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“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.”
— Kristen Wiig
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“A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.”
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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“I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.”
— Ernie Banks
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“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”
— Arthur Wellesley
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“Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.”
— Lee Trevino
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“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.”
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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