Event class: career, moved, pursue, decided, left, began, acting, full-time, music, los angeles

Events with high posterior probability

Janine Lindemulder	In 1999, Lindemulder announced that she was leaving the adult film industry to pursue a career as a kindergarten teacher.
Frances Alda	But Leonore, a promising singer from a musical family, had other ideas and in 1880, divorced her husband to resume her singing career.
Ernie Hawkins	In 1978, Hawkins decided to put aside his psychology career and become a full-time musician.
Benjamin Christensen	Christensen's professional acting career began in Aarhus in 1907, but after a short stint as actor he abandoned the stage in order to become a wine salesman.
George Dickson	He returned to Notre Dame in 1946, but dropped out in order to work full time.
John Copnall	This proved a poor choice of a career as Copnall lacked the required mathematical ability and used the excuse of his National Service to leave the profession permanently in order to become a professional artist Initially Copnall started his painting studies under the tutelage of his father at the Sir John Cass School of Art in the City of London and from 1949 under the artist Sir Henry Rushbury at the Royal Academy School.
Chandra North	In 1991, North left Texas to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer.
Jackiem Joyner	Jackiem married wife Lola Joyner in December 2003 then relocated to Los Angeles, CA to try his hand in music and further his career.
Joseph A. Walker (playwright)	He then began the pursuit of an acting career In 1966.
Baker Knight	Knight moved to Hollywood in 1958 in hopes of pursuing a career in acting, but was unsuccessful.
Erykah Badu	To concentrate on music full-time, she left the university in 1993 before graduating, and took on several minimum-wage jobs to support herself.
Sol Ho?opi?i	In 1938, Hoʻopiʻi gave up his secular career to join the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, writing and performing songs for her tours.
Phill Jupitus	in 1989 and fell back on his poetry and compering to try and gain a foothold on the London comedy circuit.
Karyn Bosnak	With the success of her first book, Bosnak abandoned the television industry altogether and began writing full-time.
Paul McDonald (musician)	In 2006, McDonald put his education on hold to pursue a full-time career in music.
Jo Niemeyer	He decided in 1970 to quit his job as professional photographer to became a full time independent artist.
Habib Tanvir	A deeply inspired Habib returned in 1958 and took directing full-time.
Zona Gale	Gale had found the material she needed for her writing, and returned to Portage in 1904 to concentrate full time on fiction.''
Donna Summer	Summer and her family moved from Sherman Oaks, California, to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1995, when she took time out from show business to focus on painting, a hobby she began back in the 1980s.
Hannah Simone	Simone stopped working at MuchMusic on 21 November 2008, stating that she had plans to move to Los Angeles, California.
Joe De Santis	They had one son by this marriage and divorced in 1956, at which time Joe moved to California to pursue his work in television and films.
Adonis Shropshire	In 1997, he moved back to Atlanta to pursue his dream of breaking into the music industry.
Jeff Carson	In February 2009, he retired from the music business and joined the Franklin, Tennessee police force as a full-time police officer.
Charles Ghigna	He left teaching and began writing full-time after signing a four-book contract with Hyperion Books in 1992, in order to'' reach more children by writing books of poetry to share with them during my visits.''
Mayra Conde	In summer of 1996, Conde moved to Los Angeles for the love of Personal Fitness Training, and in search for something bigger and more challenging.
Roger Huerta	On January 9, 2009, Huerta announced an indefinite hiatus from MMA to further pursue opportunities in acting.
Alyssa Milano	By the late 1980s, Milano was established as a teen idol, In 1991, Milano wanted to quit acting to pursue an academic career, but was unable to gain release from her contract.
Conrad Mieschke	By 1970, he decided to pursue his ambition of being a full-time artist.
Otis James	In March 2011, Otis was able to quit his job at the tuxedo shop and pursue his business full-time.
Petia (singer)	In January 2013 Petia moved to Los Angeles to focus on acting.
Butch Robins	Robins temporarily retired from music to pursue a business school degree, but returned in 1986 to play with The Bluegrass Band.
Darryl Hickman	After spending his childhood as an actor, Hickman retired from entertainment to enter a monastery in 1951, returning to Hollywood just over a year later.
Kenneth Lee Spencer	After graduating in 1938, Spencer tried to get a performing career going but met many obstacles due to racial prejudice in the United States.
Vasily Smyslov	Smyslov was a baritone singer, and only positively decided upon a chess career after a failed audition with the Bolshoi Theatre in 1950.
Charles W. Tobey	In 1911, however, he decided to move to Temple and become a full-time farmer.
Jeff Buckley	He moved to New York City in February 1990, but found few opportunities to work as a musician.
Nazanin Boniadi	Boniadi decided to change her career path from medicine and started pursuing acting in 2006.
Fred Astaire	When their father suddenly lost his job, the family moved to New York City in 1905 to launch the show business career of the children, who began training at the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts.
Lyle Waggoner	Waggoner left the show in 1974 in the hopes of advancing his career as a lead actor.
Paul Fejos	In the spring of 1926, Fejos spent his entire life savings of $ 45 on an old Buick and took a cross country trip to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a film career there.
Raymond Louis Kennedy	Encouraged by friend Otis Redding, Kennedy shifted his focus back to singing and moved to New York in 1963.
Mumtaz (actress)	After marrying in 1974, she stayed back in India as she decided to complete these three films and complete her other pending projects of that time Lafange, Nagin.
Mark Kellett	After leaving Footscray, Kellett moved to Sydney for work purposes but in 1988 was convinced by the Swans to resume his career.
William Le Queux	In 1893 he abandoned journalism to concentrate on writing and travelling.
Taylor Momsen	Later that year, on August 16, 2011, Momsen told Elle magazine that she had quit acting to focus on her music career.
Valerie Chow	In 1997, she left the Hong Kong film industry to pursue a career in Hollywood, adopting the new screen name, Rachel Shane.
Jane Taylor (musician)	In 2003 Jane decided to give up her normal job in the real world and make a go of it as a full time singer-songwriter.
Matt Mira	He left Massachusetts for Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue a career in comedy.
George Biddle	Biddle's legal career was short-lived, however, and by the end of 1911 he had left the United States to study at the Académie Julian in Paris.
Jan Mesdag	A workshop of a certain American artist was so inspiring that in 1979, Mesdag decided to move to New York City to continue his education.
McCants Stewart	However, he began testing the market out west and by March 1904 he had decided that it made more business sense to practice law elsewhere and decided to permanently move to Portland, Oregon.
Wilson McCarthy	Upon returning to the United States, however, he gave up on his cowboy lifestyle, marrying Minerva Woolley in 1910, moving to New York City and entering law school at Columbia University.
Larry O'Connor (radio host)	In January 2011 O'Connor revealed his true identity, dropped his pen name and officially left the theatre business to focus on his political journalism career full-time.
David Gallagher	In 2003, during 7th Heaven's 8th season, David left the show in order to attend college full-time.
Wu Xiubo	Despite his success as an actor, Wu became tired of repeating the same roles day after day, and in 1995 decided to become a full-time musician.
Kuo Tai-yuan	After their marriage, Chang temporarily gave up her acting career in Taiwan to live with Kuo in Japan until his retirement late in 1997.
Brandon Paris	In 1999 Paris left his fathers business to pursue a career in Music.
Bill Gaither (gospel singer)	After a few years of trying to manage both a music career and his full-time teaching job, he quit his teaching job in 1967 and worked full-time in the Christian music industry.''
Faith Domergue	After graduating in 1942, Domergue continued to pursue a career in acting, but after sustaining injuries in a near-fatal car accident, her plans were put on hold.
Otto Sander	After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor.
Jon Ludvig Hammer	In 2009, Hammer announced he would not pursue a professional chess career, and he now studies economics.
Santo	In 1958, Fernando Osés, a wrestler and actor, invited Santo to work in movies, and although Santo was unwilling to give up his wrestling career, he accepted, planning to do both at the same time.
Johnny Cymbal	By 1966, having married and started a family, he no longer wished to be on the road as a performer so he committed himself to songwriting.
Tim Steed	He still had a dream of doing both comedy and television on a larger scale so in 1990, he moved from Tennessee to Orlando, Florida to work in television.
Jessie Gilbert	Gilbert had won a place at the University of Oxford to study medicine from September 2005, but decided to take a gap year in order to spend time focused solely on chess.
Adrian Paul	In 1985, he left Europe for the United States to pursue a dance and modeling career.
Hamish Clark	Clark moved to London in 1995 where he pursued a career in acting.
Valery Jacobi	In 1856 after retirement from the Army he decided to abandon his University study and pursue the artistic career instead.
Matt Schulze	He moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to be a studio musician, but ended up doing both acting and modeling.
Kim Kwang-seok	He joined the army in January 1985, and during the years of military service, he decided to pursue the career path of a musician.
Bernard Lewinsky	During his childhood, Lewinsky was largely interested in photography but, when the family moved to the United States in 1957 when Lewinsky was 14, his interests began to converge onto medicine instead.
Syreeta Wright	Money problems kept Wright from pursuing a career in ballet so Wright focused her attention on a music career joining several singing groups before landing a job as a receptionist for Motown in 1965.
Arthur (TV presenter)	In August 2007, he decided to leave À prendre ou à laisser to devote himself to his new theater career in Le Dîner de Cons.
Dechen Shak-Dagsay	In 2005, Dechen left her job to pursue her career in music full-time.
James Lee Guy	Then in 2007, he left a rewarding real estate job behind to focus on his new career as a hungry actor.
Joe Shuster	In 1964, when Shuster was living on Long Island with his elderly mother, he was reported to be earning his living as a freelance cartoonist ; he was also'' trying to paint pop art -- serious comic strips -- and hope -LSB- d -RSB- eventually to promote a one-man show in some chic Manhattan gallery''.
Gaudi (musician)	In 1995 Gaudi made the decision to move to London where access to a growing international and more groundbreaking music industry would allow him to continue to develop both artistically and professionally.
Paul Morphy	By 1859, on returning to New Orleans, Morphy declared he was retiring from chess to begin his law career.
Daniele Vocaturo	In 2008, after completing his school studies, he decided to follow in the footsteps of Michele Godena, becoming a professional player.
Lin Shaye	In 1977, she moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her acting career.
Betty Davis	After the end of her marriage with Davis, Betty moved to London, probably around 1971, to pursue her modeling career.
Anjeza Shahini	After taking a break from the music industry to continue her studies in pop music in Austria, in 2007 Anjeza returned to the Albanian stage with two important projects.
Betty Davis	Their 1967 album was a major success, but Betty Mabry was focusing on her modeling career.
Frankie Muniz	In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open wheel racing career.
Albert Friedlander	The U of C coach suggested that he try out for the 1948 Olympic team, but he decided to concentrate on his studies instead, having made up his mind to enter rabbinic school upon gaining his Bachelor's degree.
Matti Hatava	In 2002 Hatava took a break from active sport to pursue his personal career in banking.
Ant?nio de Macedo	He abandoned his architect career in 1964 to devote himself to filmmaking as director and scriptwriter.
G-Eazy	During an interview in December 2011 with the Student Publication of the University at Buffalo, Gillum explained his decision to pursue both music and education'' I knew I had to go to college, but I knew I wanted to pursue music, that's why I chose Loyola.
Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis	In 1979, Boulis moved to Florida with the intent to retire, however he soon began building the popular Miami Subs Grill.
Alberta Schenck Adams	When Alberta was a high school girl in 1944, she had a part-time job ushering at the Alaska Dream Theatre in Nome, where part of her job was to make sure non-white patrons sat in their designated segregated area.
Benjamin Prins	By the end of 1888, after having painted in Paris for two years, Prins felt himself ready to begin practicing art as a profession.
Paul Wegener	At the age of 20, Wegener decided to end his law studies and concentrate on acting, touring the provinces before joining Max Reinhardt's acting troupe in 1906.
Patrick Harvey (actor)	When he returned to Australia in August 1999 he had decided not to continue acting but only due to his parents' encouragement he pursued it in Australia.
Jean-Pierre Rampal	Having been married in 1947 and now a father of two, the post offered him a regular income to offset the vagaries of the freelance life, even though his solo career as a recording artist was developing rapidly.
Maribel Guardia	Guardia moved to Mexico in 1980 ; this move proved to be crucial for her show business career.
Ariano Suassuna	This year to 1956, he devoted himself to law, without abandoning, however, the theater industry.
Mateus Ward	In 2009, his family moved back to Sherman Oaks, California, where Mateus pursued acting in Film, Television and Commercials.
Heather Owens	In June 2006, Owens quit her full-time job to pursue wrestling and traveled with Tracy Smothers.
Elnur H?seynov	In December 2009, Elnur Hüseynov announced his intention to move permanently to Ukraine to further pursue his musical career.
Patrick Garcia	In June 2008, Patrick Garcia decided to leave intrigues behind as he went for a new life abroad -- with the hope to pursue studies in directing at New York University.