Emily Giffin Quotes

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

I know there are certain things I may never achieve depending on whether I stay at the Ospreys or go.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Another occupation might have been better.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.