Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.
I have never been choosy throughout my career.
When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
If Warren Buffett could change his mind about investing in airlines, Mohnish Pabrai could change his mind about investing in autos. Pabrai, who has modeled his investment career and fee structure after Buffett's original partnership, counts General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Ferrari in his highly concentrated portfolio.
I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.
Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.
How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.
Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.
