I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
Elliot Richardson

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Len Deighton

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
Christine Baranski

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
Lucas Papademos

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
Hugh Mackay

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Tony Visconti

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.
Steve Albini

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
Colin Mochrie

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
Dwayne Johnson

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
Bruce Boxleitner

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
Robert B. Laughlin

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
Ronnie Spector

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Trevor Nunn

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
Guy Forget

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.
Rick Wakeman

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Jimmy Breslin