The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
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.
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
The time has come for professional jurors.
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.
At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.
When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.
When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
