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“I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.”

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Author:Elinor Lipman

“I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.”

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Author:Jane Leeves

“I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.”

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Author:Jane Lynch

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

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Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.”

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Author:Jenny Lawson

“One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.”

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Author:John Lescroart

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

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Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.”

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Author:Laura Marling

“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”

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Author:Lord Mountbatten

“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.”

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Author:Marla Maples

“Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.”

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Author:Michael McKean

“But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.”

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Author:Patrick Macnee

“If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.”

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Author:Paula Malcomson

“None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”

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Author:Roddy McDowall

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.”

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Author:Sean Maher

“I love my job, I've always loved my job.”

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Author:Sienna Miller

“It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.”

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Author:Sienna Miller

“I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.”

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Author:Vic Morrow

“I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.”

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Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

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Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.”

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Author:Randy Neugebauer

“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”

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Author:Sam Neill

“Put it this way: singing is not my day job.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.”

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Author:Dave Obey

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

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