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To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego. — Gary Oldman

I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test. — Luke Evans

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. — Victoria Pratt

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman. — Preston Manning

When I was the first time for a job in New York, I saw Natalia Vodianova on an oversized billboard in Times Square on a Calvin Klein billboard. — Lara Stone

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting. — Stuart Blumberg

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks. — Hunter Parrish

A sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take — Kate White

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer. — William Styron

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with. — Lloyd Kaufman

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job --- not a calling. — Paul Kalanithi

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. — Charles Bukowski

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. — Hayley Atwell

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction. — William Feather

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.' — Jonas Mekas

The mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her. — Gail Caldwell

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. — Morgan Freeman

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half. — Hannibal Buress

Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first. — Joseph A. Micucci

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first. — Garson Kanin

Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of 'The Three Little Pigs.' They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf. — William Zabka

When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your pajamas and you don't have to get dressed up for it. — Kelly Hu

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up. — Jessica Stroup

The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place. — Allison Kilkenny

'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program. — Alex Trebek

I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society
more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge. — Eric Idle

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job. — Blair Underwood

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career. — Bill Vaughan

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ. — John Fugelsang

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths. — Andy Rourke

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago. — Kenneth Langone

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. — Melissa Rauch

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you. — Peter F. Drucker

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

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building. — Rod Taylor

First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance) — Clive Barker

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job. — Howie Carr

At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much. — Vonda Shepard

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid. — Howard Schultz

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt. — George Clooney

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner. — Judd Nelson

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes. — Michelle Obama

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. — Tori Amos

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years. — Sara Canning

If a job is a job, then you would still have the first job you ever got! — T.A. Crosbarn

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass. — Brandon Sanderson

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first. — Joel Salatin

The first job of a leader is to define reality."1 — Kara Powell

First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job."
"If my simple word is not good, is my oath better? — Robert A. Heinlein

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. — Fitzhugh Dodson

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel. — Lily James

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school. — Phil LaMarr

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976. — Janice Dickinson

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things. — Tarjei Vesaas

Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid. — Karen DeCrow

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired. — Jason Dolley

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. — Matthew T. Cross

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, — Gabriela Sabatini

My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since. — Nadine Velazquez

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid. — John Barrowman

My first acting job was a Breck commercial. — Jaclyn Smith

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. — Stephen Cole Kleene

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. — Graham Yost

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!' — Zooey Deschanel

The first job of a writer is to be honest. — Irvine Welsh

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job. — Jesse Kellerman

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting. — Tamsin Egerton

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days. — Grant Bowler

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA. — Robert Lopez

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. — Alexandre Dumas

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. — Anna Camp

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich. — Marco Rubio

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway. — Sophia Amoruso

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska. — Becca Fitzpatrick

As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation. — Peter Thiel

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider. — David Ulevitch

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it. — Rami Malek

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience. — Clarke Peters

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that. — Kelsea Ballerini

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me. — Joanne Froggatt

So far he'd been there for three hours, hadn't gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome. — J.P. Barnaby

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. — Nile Rodgers

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be. — Nicole Malachowski

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's. — Shelley Berman

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics. — Donna Brazile

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. — Sophie Aldred

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. — Fulton J. Sheen

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.' — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google. — Dennis Crowley

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.' — Jeff Lindsay

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job. — Tim Pawlenty

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells. — Philip Kerr