Erin O'Toole Quotes

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.

After law school, I put on my power suit and worked at a series of law firms. By the time I was at my third in six years, it dawned on me that a traditional law job wasn't for me.

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.

I went to law school with President Obama.

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.