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

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.”

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Author:Ted Rall

“I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.”

Author:Rick Santelli

“Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.”

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Author:Pierre Omidyar

“When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.”

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Author:Carol Leifer

“As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.”

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Author:Black Francis

“I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.”

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Author:Robert Bateman

“I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.”

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Author:Josh Lieb

“I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.”

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Author:Sasha Frere-Jones

“I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.”

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Author:Paul Westerberg

“My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.”

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Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow

“People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.”

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Author:Bindu

“I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.”

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Author:Stone Gossard

“I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.”

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Author:Jim C. Hines

“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.”

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Author:Al Roker