What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.

Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

My favourite store is All Saints. Having spent years dressed in a dinner suit and a bow tie as a professional player, it is wonderful being able to wear normal clothes again.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.

I'm a professional crusher of dreams.

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

Like people say, it's very hard for a good professional to retire.