Quotes about "Work & Career"

The job of art is to chase ugliness away. ”

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. ”

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone. ”

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck. ”

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career. ”

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry. ”

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having. ”

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand. ”

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success. ”

I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it. ”