Dido Harding Quotes

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

I think a woman's role is not just confined to being a homemaker and have babies, but a lot more.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

All the other students were going to flash firms in London, but I'm a real homebody and was determined to stay in the North-East.

I've loved every moment and feel privileged to have enjoyed the career I have.

You don't want an 18-year-old girl who's very talented thinking: 'I want to play for the first team but I've got to give up my education to do so.' That has happened a lot in the past.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

Somehow, the rare trips to Tel Aviv give me the feeling that I have a career.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.

After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.

I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed to help out my mom. And help myself because I needed to buy some of my clothes. I did that for about three years and I had became a shift manager working at Burger King, doing my thing. I was young and excited to make my own money.

Stop overanalyzing how you 'feel' about your job and focus on being great at it. That will lead to bigger and better opportunities.