Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.
I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.
I want to be a professional.
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.
I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.
I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.
I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.
I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.
I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.
The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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.
It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.
My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.
People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
