Sentences with phrase «writer after a career»

I'm making a living as a writer after a career practicing law.

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«He seemed fine to me,» Finchem said a day after Woods offered a grim «no timeline for return» assessment of his status that had many writers penning his career obituary.

After thirty years of caring for thousands of kids and parents (from working moms to superstars like Madonna), Dr. Karp launched a new career as a writer... and soon became America's # 1 pediatric advisor.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Ranjan Mukherjee explains why, after 3 decades in science, he is launching a career as a writer.

John received his bachelor science degree in biology from Yale in 1981 after which he worked for several years in a laboratory at Harvard Medical School before embarking on his career as a science writer.

It was also shortly after I left my corporate job to pursue a fledgling career as a chef and food writer.

She's also instrumental in making the film work, turning in her equivalent of Charlize Theron's performance in Young Adult as Gloria, an alcoholic writer who returns to her Northeastern U.S. hometown after her fussy, career - oriented boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) kicks her out.

Writer - director Christian Gudegast makes his feature debut here after an early career spent making, yes, rap videos.

24 Hours to Live Writers: Zach Dean, Jim McClain, Ron Mita Director: Brian Smrz Starring: Ethan Hawke, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer Logline: A career assassin who turns rogue after his latest mission goes awry.

After a few years on Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler kick - started his career as a writer and actor with his back - to - back hits Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore.

After a trio of missteps (The Village, The Happening and Lady in the Water), Sixth Sense writer / director M. Night Shyamalan tackles an adaptation of someone else's work for the first time in his career.

He joked through his Golden Globes acceptance speech, admitting that after a career filled with indie films — and, you know, Charlie's Angels — it was nice to be in something that people actually saw and thanking writer - director Martin McDonagh for «not being a dick.»

John Wells, a longtime writer - producer in series television (ER, The West Wing), makes his feature debut with a compelling story about three executives (Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones) who get canned after long careers with a manufacturing conglomerate called Global Transportation Systems (GTX).

Only in his mid-50s — and arguably at the peak of his career after the major awards and box office success of 2014's Boyhood — the writer - director has so much work...

After a career as writer, producer and distribution chief, James Schamus makes his feature directorial debut with Indignation, in theaters following a fest circuit that included Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle and others.

Other than the screenplay for Return Of The Jedi, after those films he focused on his own career as a writer / director.

Owen Wilson This Dallas native's acting career kicked off after attending the University of Texas at Austin, and meeting and collaborating with the then unknown six - time Oscar - nominated writer - director Wes Anderson.

But with adulthood came myriad disappointments and heartbreaks: Richie (Luke Wilson) retired from tennis after a humiliating loss and took to the seas; Margot's (Gwyneth Paltrow) writing career hit a stall and is now stuck in a passionless marriage to the much older neurologist / writer Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray); and Chas (Ben Stiller), while still successful, has become a paranoid safety freak and overprotective father to his two sons after his beloved wife was killed in a plane crash.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

A capacity for self - organization is necessary to sustain and complete the writing projects described in the standards: A college - and career - ready writer not only can craft a piece of writing but also can adjust his or her strategy in response to critical feedback from others, or after recognizing independently that the current approach is ineffective.

Mitch Pearlstein is director of a think tank in Minneapolis, the Center of the American Experiment, which he founded after a career working for University of Minnesota president C. Peter Magrath, for Minnesota governor Albert H. Quie, as an editorial writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and at the U.S. Department of Education with Chester Finn.

Ellie Herman taught English electives for five years at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in Los Angeles, a career change after 20 years as a TV writer.

I can say, as a reader, I pay special attention to a hybrid writer's work that's self - published, after a prior career of traditional publishing.

After a rousing undergraduate career at Harvard, during which he won the History and Literature Prize, the top Bowdoin Prize, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Hersh pushed off into a life as a professional writer animated by occasional triumphs and more or less constant controversy.

The better version of self - publishing involves the writer producing top - shelf work, and then using professional designers and editors (striking out on their own after careers in the big publishing houses) to produce a book that rivals or exceeds the work from traditional publishing.

But if you are the kind of writer who hates rejection and critiques, long after they were given, then writing may not be the career for you.

After graduating, Preston began his career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as an editor, writer, and finally manager of publications.

I have received a number of kudos from the husbands of writers that have expressed to me that they don't think its fair that they have to finance their wives writing careers after the child raising years are done.

After a career as a publicist, marketer and freelance writer, Paula became a popular speaker, and is often invited onto BBC Radio.

The story you tell about who you are as a writer might just be the lynchpin on which the rest of your author platform hangs — after all, everything about your writing career stems from you.

I always wanted to be a writer, but I never had anything particularly interesting to say, so after leaving a career in the arts, I decided to find a job where I could help people who did have things to say, and Kia Thomas Editing was born.

Welcome to Crichton World, which continues to flourish even after Michael Crichton's death from cancer, in 2008, at the age of 66, after a staggeringly prodigious career as a writer and director of science - based thrillers.

It is this need for writers to be better informed so that they can make the best decisions about their own careers and participate fully in shaping the industry that is, after all, so reliant on them, that inspired us to set - up the Writing Platform — a new Arts Council England - funded initiative run by The Literary Platform, with me in the role of Editor, in association with Bath Spa University.

After you've published your book, the Frankfurt Book Fair offers you the chance to further your career as a writer and publishing professional, at an international level.

Before she began her second career as a dog trainer, Sharon was a disability information and referral specialist and service dog owner - trainer, as well as the founder of the Assistance Dog Blog Carnival, a writer for the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners newsletter, and the blogger for the popular service - dog trainer's blog, After Gadget.

After being laid off in 2012, Candice Walsh took the opportunity to jump into a life of travel - along the way figuring out how to start her own location independent career as a freelance travel, copy, and creative writer and editor.

I've always loved languages (I studied Russian in university and later learned French, Spanish and Portuguese), and I had always aspired to make my living as a writer, but I really didn't have a career plan after college.

He began his travel writing career focusing on his home town of Portland, Oregon and has become a sought after Nortwest travel writer and photographer.

After a varied career in different industries from the hospitality industry to the financial consultancy industry, Ash now spends his days working as a professional writer.

Writer / photographer Kathryn Burrington studied zoology and psychology at university, but her career path changed after returning to college to study first graphic design and then photography.

After a long career as a healthcare writer / editor, I've transitioned to freelance travel writing and blogging, and take on a book editing project from time to time.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

After three years as assistant curator of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art he moved to London to pursue a career as a freelance writer on art and exhibition organiser.

In the early eighties, after a ten - year career as one of the early seventies writers, he broke away from one of graffiti's most sacred traditions: the letterform as subject matter.

Mark Green joined API after a career in newspaper journalism, including 16 years as national editorial writer for The Oklahoman in the paper's Washington bureau.

After an acting career in theatre and television, Lola Young became an arts administrator, later moving on to become professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, a writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster.

Now working as a writer, Jackie Edwards started her career in finance and banking, but after becoming a mom refocused and decided to spend more time with her family.

She is a leading career coach, Huffington Post writer, globe trotting keynote speaker, and the 2013 Best Career Book author of «The Bounce Back — personal stories of bouncing back higher and faster after a layoff, re-org or career setback.»

I started my blog for fun in 2011, eventually launching a successful eBook called Life After Teaching and creating a business for myself as a freelance writer and entrepreneur (a career I didn't know existed when I was a classroom teacher in 2008).

After spending tens of thousands of dollars on a college education, an investment of a few hundred dollars for the assistance of a professional writer to help you launch your career the right way is almost always an investment that will pay you back many times over.