Emily Maitlis Quotes

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.

I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.

You know how certain actors find their niches? Eventually, I'll be there as well. I just haven't found that yet. I'm just enjoying the ride.

People make a mistake when they think that if you just accumulate a set number of things on your resume, it's going to lead you to a particular place - the pattern of essentially compiling credentials to climb your way up a ladder. That may work, but that's not at all what happened to me.

I guess my career has gone in a roundabout way.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

As long as I stay consistent as my career goes, I'm good with it.

You never know the way your career takes.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

This is a very short-lived career. I have to do what's best for myself. I have to do what's best for my career and being on top for as long as possible.

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

I'm very career-minded.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.

If you want to promote me, promote me.

I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'