Career Quotations | Page 9

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.