Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Related I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, a... EMILY ROBISON I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set... JESSICA HAHN I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING I woke up this morning and smelled smoke in the house. By that time, somebody was beating at my door... JEFF BRADSHAW I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f... SALMAN RUSHDIE When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all... PATRICIA RIGGEN I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ... JESSICA VALENTI In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I ... BJORN ULVAEUS My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society... RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI The only time I was out of it in my pro career was after being clipped in the first round by a slow ... DIEGO CORRALES By the time that I grabbed my little boy and my dog and got down the stairs you could see the blinds... MANDIE SARGENT My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread. RAFAEL PALMEIRO I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son... ISAIAH WASHINGTON It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thought... SYLVIA DAY The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was ... ENDA KENNY My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time ... BITSIE TULLOCH I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monu... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutio... CATHY GUISEWITE I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overv... DON NOVELLO I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because ... NOLAN RYAN There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'... J. COLE I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the co... HERMAN CAIN The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the car... MUHAMMAD YUNUS In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at ... KATHLEEN HANNA There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When... GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like... ANNA KENDRICK I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And ... JAMES PATTERSON I grew up with that whole devaluation of myself because I was female. It's outrageous, and it stays ... MOLLY YARD 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phant... CELIA IMRIE The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image... LYDIA LUNCH I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my... SHANNON L. ALDER The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive prob... SIDNEY SHELDON I was going for the puck along the boards by the red-line. I was trying to dig it out, I was going f... JOZEF BALEJ I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, to... GEORGE BEST I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond... PATRICK STEWART My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus... JULIETTE LEWIS Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my ... DANNIKA DARK I ran a fantastic time today — world lead and personal best, ... I couldn't have run any faster be... SANYA RICHARDS Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ... URSULA BURNS My father felt he had no choice. I felt that given time, something could have been worked out and th... DAVID BEHRING I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran ... ARTHUR MILLER I was in the stands jumping up and down. Because, from my angle, it looked like he got in. I was che... ANDRE DYSON One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another i... VALENTINA TERESHKOVA My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call... PAMELA ANDERSON It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different dem... LARENZ TATE When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love fo... PADMASREE WARRIOR I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca... W. G. SEBALD I think you earn what you get out of life. 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I was working hard in my dad's... MAVERICK GOLDEN My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care... FRED FUNK That was by far the coldest I've ever been on a baseball field. The wind was in my face the whole ti... MATT MCGRAW I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my exte... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing,... EVANGELINE LILLY I was once doubtful because my paddy field was not only inundated by seawater but also covered by sa... MUHAMMAD DAUD I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ... ANNA KENDRICK In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up b... ANDIE MACDOWELL I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year ... STERLING K. BROWN I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female ... BRIAN BLESSED I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women... MICHELLE PAVER When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was... NEIL STRAUSS Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by th... CLIFF RICHARD I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' b... AJA NAOMI KING The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me a... JOSEPH J. LHOTA Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I th... PAUL STANLEY It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accen... LILY JAMES In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going... ZACHARY KNIGHTON Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible.... DANNY DEVITO We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a... SANJEEV BHASKAR Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa... KATHLEEN TURNER I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. B... MAGGIE ROWE When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so ... EDDIE MARSAN I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa... TAYLOUR PAIGE I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standard... JEREMY CORBYN I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val... ANGELA DUCKWORTH When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then ... JACK BLACK I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys an... RACHEL NICHOLS The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine... ANDY GIBB Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, a... CARLY RAE JEPSEN You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks... ALBERT S. RUDDY My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to pract... CAL RIPKEN, JR. Are tou trying to be annoying?" I demanded. My patience was not waning, but entirely gone. "Because ... STEPHENIE MEYER What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an a... JEH JOHNSON I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t... GEORGIA HOLT I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's '... COLMAN DOMINGO I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me... RANDY HOUSER I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me do... MIRANDA KERR The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ... CHRIS O'DONNELL Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he wo... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of... REBECCA SOLNIT When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a go... THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k... YOKO ONO I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, ... MICK FOLEY I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member... JENNY NIMMO It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys alw... KEVIN NASH I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei... KATHARINE ISABELLE
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BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. BARBARA MANDRELL