Ken Burns Quotes

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

After Class 10, I kept away from films.

I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.

I continued school August of 2018. I went back but I shifted my course because in 2017, I was taking up business management and then I stopped because I realized I wasn't passionate about it.

I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

I'll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, 'I'll never be a kindergarten teacher.'

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

My career has totally changed. Burnley helped me get to where I am, and I'll never forget that.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

My career has taken so many directions.

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.