She worked as a management trainee for Kmart in 1981 but quit after a few months and entered a beauty pageant.

She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to " learn your lines or get out of my play ".

She quit school to pursue acting full-time but eventually graduated from Fairfax in 1927.

She studied acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d ' Art Dramatique ( CNSAD ), but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum.

She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career.

She quit a year later to be with her parents who had reunited in California.

She quit modeling after their second child was born.

She starred in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately displeased with acting, and quit.

She quit NAWSA in 1914 to return to Montana to help secure passage of woman suffrage there, which was achieved in 1914.

She quit school shortly after her First Communion to work as a cash girl in a department store.

She quit this show due to illness and subsequently travelled to Europe.

She came down with polio ( misdiagnosed at first as spinal meningitis ) in 1942, and Nichols quit a gig playing with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and left the music business to work in the wartime shipyards.

" She quit the airline and devoted herself to writing.

' She fell ill during the production and was so sick that she had to quit and let Arlene Francis take her place.

She finally quit her teaching career because of tuberculosis.

She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer ( which were later dismissed ).

She has also appeared on the reality shows Spelling Bee and Cold Turkey, which followed her attempts to quit smoking with Sophie Anderton, celebrity specials of A Place in the Sun and Blind Date and in episodes of Tabloid Tales, With a Little Help from my Friends, Russian Roulette, Celebrities Under Pressure and Project Catwalk.

She eventually quit the newspaper, but after her father's death in 1941 she suffered a third and final breakdown, when her neighbors found her roaming the neighborhood one night screaming.

She taught English at a Further Education College in Birmingham, but quit after the publication of her first novel, and moved to the suburb of Kings Heath.

In December 2010, the 107-year-old Heesters announced that he had quit smoking for his then 61-year-old wife: " She should have me as long as possible.

In the title song he credits Jessica McClure's ordeal for inspiring him to quit drinking, stating, " She was trapped in there with a broken arm in the dark, in a life-and-death situation she was singing nursery rhymes to herself and being brave ,"..." It made my problems seem tiny.

She decided to quit music and to devote herself to study chemistry in high school and after graduation in 1929, started to work in in a dye factory as a chemist, to help her family.

She even comes up with a unique plan that she explains to Raymond, " I shall quit my chamber ... drest in the same apparel as the Ghost is supposed to wear.

She revealed in a web chat after the release of Deathly Hallows that George never fully got over Fred's death, but succeeded in turning Weasleys ' Wizarding Wheezes into a " money spinner " with Ron, who eventually quit to become an Auror.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

She holds honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, Trent University, and the University of British Columbia.

She studied with professor Franz Boas and Dr. Ruth Benedict at Columbia University before earning her Master's in 1924.

She received her Ph. D. from Columbia University in 1929.

She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her Ph. D and joining the faculty in 1923.

She then enrolled at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition, Performance, and Education.

She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions ( three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery ) and logged 1512 hours in space.

She originally pursued her master's degree at Columbia University, where she was exposed to the subject of psychology through courses under Edward Thorndike.

She helped the R & B trio Blaque to secure a record deal with Columbia Records.

She released The Singer ( 1973 ) and Tropical Nights ( 1977 ) from Columbia Records.

" She has taught at the University of British Columbia ( 1965 ), Sir George Williams University in Montreal ( 1967 – 68 ), the University of Alberta ( 1969 – 70 ), York University in Toronto ( 1971 – 72 ), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ( 1985 ), where she was visiting M. F. A.

She later taught Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while living in Vancouver 1978 – 80.

She had been told by Columbia Records to record the song, and that she would be in violation of her contract if she did not do so.

* English As She Is Spoken ( 1952, Columbia Records ))

She wanted to learn drafting to scale, elevation rendering, surveying, and engineering, and so studied at the Columbia School of Mines of Columbia University in New York City, New York, under the direction of Professor William Ware.

She has received many honorary Degrees, including Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of Western Ontario in June 2000, Doctor of Humane Letters from Mount Saint Vincent University in May 2001, and Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of British Columbia in November 2001, the University of Waterloo in October 2006, in June 2009 from the University of Alberta and University of Guelph, and from Simon Fraser University in October 2009.

She graduated from Howard University and became the first female professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College and then at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

She and her husband Dr. Edmund W. Gordon were instrumental in founding the Tubman Child Health and Guidance Clinic in Harlem, New York and Psycho-Educational Diagnostic Clinic for children-Part of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

She holds a PhD from Columbia University.

She attended the New York School of Philanthropy ( later part of Columbia University ) in the 1908-1909 school year.

She became sufficiently famous for Columbia to invite her into the recording studio to make 78 rpm discs of four of the numbers she sang in these revues: Please sell no more drink to my father and He didn't oughter were on one disc ( recorded in 1926 ) and Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin and The Ladies Bar was on the other ( recorded 1930 ).

She has received ten honorary degrees from schools including Smith College, Spelman College, Swarthmore College, and the University of the District of Columbia.