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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
Laura Moser
Money
Language
Lost
Everything
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Immigrants
City
Thousands
Had
He
Over
Welcomed
Him
Houston
Arrived
His
Years
Germany
Refugee
Grandfather
Profession
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall
Accident
Profession
Stardom
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
Laurie Metcalf
You
About
Up
Southern
Get
Far
Far Away
Profession
Illinois
Growing
Growing Up
Away
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.
Lawrence Bender
Like
Making
Making Movies
Doing
Lot
Movies
Profession
Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
Lea Thompson
Amazing
Job
Given
Sitcoms
Quite
Short
Acting
Profession
Unlike office workers who improve their profession with repeated daily practice, entertainers don't have any work manual or daily workload. But, I personally set my daily workload, trying hard to invest a set amount of time to improve myself, like other professionals.
Lee Seung-gi
Work
Time
Myself
Daily
Practice
Other
Unlike
Entertainers
Invest
Like
Repeated
Improve
Office
Trying
Any
Personally
Workers
Hard
Manual
Who
Profession
Professionals
Amount
Set
You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.
Leigh Whannell
You
Lonely
Other
Meet
Never
Because
Profession
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
Lela Loren
Death
Insecurity
Unknown
Back
Our
Marks
Must
Constant
True
Celebrated
Unemployment
Often
Us
Profession
Actor
Careers
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.
Len G. Murray
Great
Law
Thought
Duty
Think
Besides
Retired
Like
Attractions
Call
Practising
Always
Profession
Even
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
Leon Askin
Great
Great Deal
Honorary
Deal
His
Difference
Title
Profession
Receive
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
Leos Carax
Life
Cinema
Live
Films
Way
Seeing
Outside
Supposed
Territory
Making
Exists
Experiencing
Place
Movies
Profession
Things
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
Les Wexner
You
Better
Parents
Something
Knew
Supposed
Were
Up
Than
Being
Which
Profession
Growing
Growing Up
I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
Lesley Gore
You
Change
Eyes
People
World
Thought
First
Singing
Think
Change The World
Say
Wow
About
Noble
Like
Robert
Robert Kennedy
How
Discouraging
Very
Front
Then
Worked
Profession
Kennedy
Watched
Started
My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Life
Good
Mom
Natural
Complicated
Unhappy
My Life
Took
Way
Extremely
Those
Good Mom
Kids
Stay-At-Home
Stay-At-Home Mom
She
Learned
Because
How
Role
Role Models
Models
Frustrated
Loves
Much
Really
Teaching
Who
Profession
Moms
Chosen
Her
Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
You
People
Lonely
Past
Sympathize
Changing
Everything
Invaluable
Having
Network
Through
Writer
Terror
Issues
Contract
Very
Going
Being
Your
Who
Profession
Novel
Asset
No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.
Lisa Kleypas
Time
Good
You
Yourself
People
Matter
Scare
More
Crucial
Learn
Accomplished
Than
From Time To Time
Little
Your
Who
Profession
Keep
Challenging
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe
Business
Others
Journalism
Understand
Does
Explain
Personally
Profession
Whose
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young
Education
Others
Our
Varied
Academic
Branches
Common
Profession
Many
A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.
Louis D. Brandeis
Family
Man
Better
Citizen
College
State
States
Lodge
City
Also
Trade
His
Being
Loyal
Profession
United
United States
They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
Louise Jameson
Feeling
Must
Overcrowded
Die
Profession
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti
Great
You
Past
Our
See
Singer
None
Them
Prodigy
Profession
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
Lykke Li
Me
Gardening
Drama
Taking
Baking
Profession
Away
Keeps
Flowering
Dragging
Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.
Lyoto Machida
Friendship
Difficult
Very
Your
Separating
Profession
I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
Mahesh Babu
Work
Hard Work
Pressure
First
Films
Our
Months
Only
Judged
Because
Always
Years
Friday
Hard
Show
Reason
Profession
Even
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Malcolm McDowell
Seriously
Country
Taken
Very
Where
Acting
Profession
Serious
I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.
Margaret Qualley
You
Parents
Thinking
About
Never
Like
Because
Up
Did
Often
Want
Grew
Acting
Your
Profession
Mum
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