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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
Vanessa Marano
Work
You
People
Sets
Plenty
Liked
Been
Up
Where
Suck
Professional
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
Vanessa Paradis
Life
Love
Care
Clothes
Skin
Nice
Spent
Kind
About
Another
Breathe
Much
Creating
Your
Professional
Professional Life
Image
I became a professional boxer because I want the attention and interest to come back to boxing. I want people interested in boxing. That's very important to me.
Vasyl Lomachenko
Me
People
Important
Back
Attention
Come
Became
Because
Boxer
Boxing
Very
Want
Interest
Interested
Professional
Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
Venus Williams
Sports
Women
Long
Other
Has-Been
Tennis
Had
Since
Leagues
Majors
Around
Been
Professional
Playing
Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don't have a PR agency, I don't have a manager, and I don't even have a professional portfolio. People who hire me are people who, just like the audience, have just seen me in a small role here or in an ad there.
Vikrant Massey
Me
People
Seen
Whatever
Small
Like
Because
Audience
Hire
Role
Manager
Just
Agency
Who
Professional
Even
Portfolio
Ad
Here
Watching
My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn't really interested in me having a professional football career.
Vincent Kompany
Me
Side
Having
More
Football
Pushing
Towards
Academic
She
Always
Interested
Really
Professional
Professional Football
Mum
Career
My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.
Ving Rhames
Home
You
Wonderful
Wife
Detective
Able
Some
Atrocities
Deal
How
Wonderful Thing
Human
Experiences
Happen
Former
Them
Professional
Capture
Homicide
Thing
Bring
How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.
Ving Rhames
You
Experience
Side
He
Maintain
Him
How
Integrate
Condition
Off
Times
Done
Human
Just
Being
Human Condition
Human Experience
Cut
Professional
Incorporated
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
Viswanathan Anand
Work
Alone
Day
Every Day
Word
Partner
Every
Something
Something New
Pursuit
Almost
Emphasis
Almost Every Day
New
Hours
Always
Chess
Surprising
End
Professional
Players
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
W. Bruce Cameron
Love
Challenges
Love Is
Face
Alive
Characters
Columnist
Come
Am
Real
Real Love
Screenwriter
Room
Newspaper
Breathe
Professional
Novel
My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
Wallace Shawn
Life
Me
Lie
People
Words
Job
Become
Personal Life
Down
Other
Else
Dream
Someone
Go
Office
Personal
In Other Words
Professional
Professional Life
Lived
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers
Lawyer
Athlete
Child
Wanted
Professional
Professional Athlete
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
Warren Moon
You
Sports
Regret
Win
Part
Years
Any
Want
Team
Team Sports
Professional
Professional Sports
Why
Play
Level
Played
Championship
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
Wentworth Miller
Time
Living
Distinction
Though
Feel
Between
Very
Personal
Where
Little
Paid
Professional
I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
Werner Herzog
Man
Experience
Out
Adventure
Very
Professional
One of my brothers, Serge, was at a couple of professional clubs on trial, including Palace when they had Ashley Cole on loan. He was a winger, though left-footed, and I learned a lot of my skills from him.
Wilfried Zaha
Loan
Trial
Though
Brothers
Had
He
Couple
Him
Learned
Lot
Clubs
Ashley
Skills
Professional
Including
Palace
I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.
Will McDonough
Think
Jim
Jim Brown
Ran
Syracuse
Athlete
All-Around
Brown
Browns
Football
He
Track
Greatest
Professional
Professional Football
Ever
Played
Basketball
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
Will Self
Life
Freelance
Willpower
Plumber
Writer
Simply
Like
Period
She
Without
Any
Whether
Professional
Professional Writer
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
William Friedkin
You
School
Will
Say
Take
Idea
Want
Informing
Professional
Original
Film
Film School
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
William Landay
Time
Try
Mind
Become
Living
Honestly
Earn
Would
Crossed
Could
Write
Never
Had
Clear
Did
Decide
Decided
Professional
Novel
Novelist
Actually
Assistant
Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.
Willie Cauley-Stein
Good
You
Speak
Mind
Think
Able
Vocal
Something
More
Being
Really
Your
Professional
When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
Willie Mays
Year
Every
Ball
Got
How
Depends
Used
Games
Many
Professional
Play
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays
Me
Knowledge
Before
Would
Easy
Guy
Had
Know
Became
How
Brag
Hit
Trying
Anything
Professional
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
Each
Baseball
Baseball Player
Things
Player
My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.
Wladimir Klitschko
You
People
Some People
Long
Other
Complain
Punches
Out
See
Some
Guy
Beat
Take
Knock
Because
Boxers
Boxing
Goal
Lot
Up
Hit
Getting
Want
Cannot
Might
Professional
Each
Last
I played professional hockey in Europe. I played in the German third league and the Dutch elite league.
Wyatt Russell
League
German
Dutch
Hockey
Europe
Professional
Played
Elite
Third
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
Wynton Marsalis
Myself
Musicians
Together
Older
Would
Would-Be
Brother
Never
Knew
Always
Bands
Professional
Older Brother
Played
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