Sentences with phrase «first big break»

Meg got her first big break in TV as Betsy Stewart Andropoulos on As the World Turns, which she starred in from 1982 - 1984.

Career Services can help connect you with internships, summer jobs and that first big break.

Maybe you have recently graduated college and are looking to land your first big break in your chosen field.

Jordan's first big break came when he was offered the lead part in Disney's Broadway recreation of Newsies.

Her first big break was having a painting included in the Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1971.

His first big break came in 1962, when dealer Richard Bellamy, with the support of his backer, collector Robert Scull, invited Poons to show his work at the nascent Green Gallery.

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My first big break was in 2012, when I got the chance to have a solo exhibition in a new art space in Yogyakarta.

In 1954, 25 - year - old Kusama had her first big break with a solo exhibition at the Shirokiya Gallery in Tokyo.

During this time, we also started taking our travel blog, Two Monkeys Travel a lot more seriously and I had my first big break, my first article published in Rappler!

It was my first big break.

Wouldn't it be cool if one of the author's featured on my site got their first big break as an author from my site and for free?

Employed to seek out intelligent life on other planets, Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen) gets his first big break in the form of a radio signal.

Trucy has finally landed her first big break: Trucy in Gramarye Land!

The youngest person at the time to achieve the acting trifecta of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony, Rush discusses his early days acting in Australian theater and his first big break, which he says he got by going completely naked onstage and being «discovered» (he likes to... Read

In this mode, you play as a stunt driver fresh out of driving school, looking for your first big break.

It might be refreshing for some of his fans to see Cera actually play someone other than an in - name - only variation of the George Michael persona from his first big break in «Arrested Development.»

Weinstein gave Clooney his first big break as an actor in the film «From Dusk till Dawn,» as well as his first big directing break with «Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.»

Alexander Skarsgard has been a name thrown around a lot in smaller films or supporting roles, but this seems to be his first big break, at least in my opinion.

He began acting on and writing for a number of television series, and he got his first big break co-starring with old friend Jim Belushi on the sitcom Working Stiffs (1979).

His first big break was as Corporal Billy Jester in the 1959 off - Broadway operetta spoof Little Mary Sunshine, which won him both a Theatre World award and a bride (he married Cynthia Baer, one of the show's producers).

The first big break came in 1992, when the Supernova Cosmology Project bagged its first distant Type Ia supernova using a new CCD detector on the two - meter (6 1/2 foot) Isaac Newton Telescope at the La Palma Observatory in the Canary Islands.

Now in his mid-30s and nearing retirement age, Howard is going back to the league that gave him his first big break back in the 1990s.

Houston got its first big break of the night when Martin muffed a punt, giving the Texans the ball back at the 21 - yard line.

In 2015, the brothers landed their first big break: a $ 500,000 prize at the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

Oprah's first big break was her gig at the local black radio station.

One of the first big breaks for him and his brother was as co-writers on the infamous Seinfeld episode «The Virgin,» which introduced the Marla character played by Jane Leeves and gave audience the scene where Elaine discusses her diaphragm.

According to the actress — who had one of her first big breaks as the slightly unhinged object of Vince Vaughn's affections in the 2005 comedy — Vaughn recently told her at a party that «apparently we're going to be making a sequel.»

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But the big break came when the same user posted a letter from his lawyer, his first and last name visible for the whole world to see.

The business world learned just how big AWS was in April, when Amazon for the first time broke out its numbers in a quarterly earnings report.

From the start, Barton loved consulting — breaking big problems down into their smallest components, then peering at them closely, first - hand, before building back up to a solution.

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

The company at first floundered, but in 1998 it caught a big break when it landed a Pentagon research grant.

The hotshot «dealaholic» selling machine, who got his first taste of sales success at the age of seven selling a record - breaking number of books and Christmas calendars door to door in his native Stockholm, returned to the City That Never Sleeps at 25 determined to make it big.

So to walk that thin ice and to be personal and to be me, to complete that first sale, which at the time was a record - breaking transaction, was a big win.

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I think the motivation to break records was a lot bigger earlier in the day, when I was first starting.

The Republican convention kicked off with its first big market surprise — Donald Trump wants to break up the big banks.

Last July, in one of his first big speeches after his appointment had become official, and just before Greece would need a second bailout, Mr. Draghi seemed to break with Mr. Trichet.

So enormous credit goes to Morgan Stanley for being the first big bank to break the protocol.

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

The world's biggest wealth fund is for now sticking to an overweight position in the shorter bond maturities as the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield has broken through the 3 percent threshold for the first time since 2014.

The first three Florida «Keys Cottages» are set to break ground at the end of the month in one of the hardest hit areas in Big Pine...

It's been my experience that religious zealots of all creeds, but here in the U.S. mostly white Christians, are the first ones to throw women, children, old people and the disabled under the bus financially so they can grab bigger tax breaks for themselves.

Once the family broke the gag order and got some national coverage there was huge outcry from first amendment lawyers about the illegality of that order, and also others speaking out about having been legally gagged in court cases with big power differential.

I used some that were too big, rolled out the dough too thick so it wouldnt break and ended up way underbaking the first batch.

I usually watch the mixture turn into a big ball first, and then it breaks down into crumbles if you continue processing for a minute or so.

It is particularly difficult for strikers to break through the ranks into the first - team at the bigger clubs at present, with most sides opting to play only one striker in the starting XI, and Arsenal is no different on that front.

The big question is, though, can Arsenal take advantage of their problems and get a first win on the board before the international break?