Top 1200 Professional Writer Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I never pictured myself as a professional musician.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

You can disagree with someone and still do business as a professional.

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting myself out there in that way. I don't consider myself a good writer, so I had to rely on a co-writer. Still, I knew that people would judge me and my writing. I am really proud of the way the series turned out.

As a professional, you have an obligation to rehabilitate yourself as fast as you can.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

In professional football, there are always going to be critics.

Design your site so it looks professional

I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.

Bipasha is a very sincere and professional actor.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I'm a professional; I've got to be on weight all the time. There's not excuses for that.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

It's important to carry yourself as a professional at all times.

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important.

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

I don't know how to be professional. But I always enjoy what I do.

In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

We live in this business where we've got to do what we have to do - play professional.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

I like to dance, but there's nothing professional about it.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

I've only worked with very professional people.

I have played with seriousness and in a professional way for my country.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

I am a good professional and I keep fighting for what I have.

Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much harder to get on as an imaginative writer like me now. You need to have somebody who believes in what you're doing and who never is skeptical about what you're doing. My wife thought it was a great thing for me to be a writer because in practical terms it freed her to do what she wanted to do, which was work.

I was a writer. I wrote on the show. We were in the writer's room and by about episode five, I started to think: 'I really understand Roy Kent. I really understand Roy Kent. I think Roy Kent is within me.'

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.

I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.

It's hard to play quarterback in professional football.

It's all about being professional. You can't be dwelling on mistakes.

I'm a grown man, a professional, and a world champion.

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

Go in, do a great job, be super professional.

I show up. I make weight. I'm a professional.

I'm going to become a real professional actress.

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build a more detailed world. I think it applies to what Gord Downie is doing with his body of work, which is to build a more detailed world and there's something really political about that.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

In many ways professional wrestling is a dance.

Having a routine makes for a better professional.

There is a great part of the professional world that I don't like.