Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career when she met Bill Cosby, who was seven years her senior.
Rebecca Traister
ParentsCollegePlanningCareerShe
My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.
Daniel Pipes
PoliticalTryingYouCareerWant
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
MusicMyselfMeHobbyCareerActing
Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.
Hong Chau
Growing UpCareerChoiceGrowingWay
I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
Ed Sheeran
CareerGoWant
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
Bill Goldberg
StandCareerRightBecauseMadeDid
I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.
Kathleen Battle
ThinkMediaTalkingCareerMore
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
Talib Kweli
FocusLookCareerRightOwnArc
'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.
Hannah Gadsby
LifeJourneyMeWorldCareerShe
Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.
Elvis Costello
GreatTimeTogetherFriendsCareer
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
Randy Schekman
WorkBestReputationCareerPersonal
I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
Daniela Ruah
CharacterYearLongCareerStarted
I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
Maluma
FamilyMeSingingVoiceCareer
When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?
Hermann Maier
YouCareerGoWhyEverythingLeft
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
E. O. Wilson
WorkLoveSchoolHigh SchoolCareer
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
Beverly Sills
VoiceLongCareerQuietDignityBed
It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.
Kathryn Minshew
PathThinkDoingTryingYouCareer
I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
Rainey Qualley
I AmEarlyCareerGoldenAwards
That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.
Gary Lineker
HomeTimeSickYouCareerTrain
I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.
Eliot Sumner
ChallengeThinkYouCareerWayGot
I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.
Rashard Lewis
GreenCareerSaidRoomWholeBeen
'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.
Efren Ramirez
CareerUpNapoleonDynamiteBlew
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose
PastProblemsPresentCareerFirst
The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.
Henry Cloud
GreatBestPeopleCareerResults
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