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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 in television was on 'My So-Called Life.' — Jason Katims

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't. — Michael Buerk

My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying. — Vicky McClure

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

I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base. — David Cunliffe

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. — Michael Weatherly

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

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. — Elizabeth Strout

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since. — Rachel Roy

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

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.' — Brenton Thwaites

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

Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles — Sunday Adelaja

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard. — Anna Kendrick

Every job feels like my first. — Kelly Reilly

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

The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family. — Chris Christie

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

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

I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job. — Erin Davie

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

My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge! — Freddie Prinze Jr.

I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck — Greig Beck

I use job interviews for two things. First, to recruit people. Second, to get some help with my work. I give job candidates problems I can't — Robert I. Sutton

6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take — Rick Warren

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

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. — Venus Williams

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

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 job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got. — James Coburn

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time. — Dolly Parton

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can. — Sara Zarr

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. — Jessica Alba

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

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground. — Claudio Hummes

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. — Douglas Trumbull

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

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job. — Bo Bice

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time. — Phil Crosby

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub. — Rita Ora

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

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. — David Foster Wallace

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

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware. — Zig Ziglar

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement. — Ed Vargo

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.

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

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

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after. — Piper Perabo

My first job was, like, McDonald's. — Swae Lee

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

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost. — Larry Fitzgerald

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

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

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

I was 18 when I got my first TV job. — Andrea Arnold

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

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table. — Yvor Winters

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA. — Tracy McGrady

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, I was Chuck E. at Chuck E. Cheese's. — Timm Sharp

Nothing," declared the first stormtrooper, standing at attention. Poe winked up at the trooper who had used his hands. "Good job." Forgetting — Alan Dean Foster

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

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. — Len Cariou

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? — Jodi Picoult

My first job as premier will be to go back to basics. — Lara Giddings

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

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating. — Calvin Miller

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

Obviously music is my first job. — Alesha Dixon

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

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. — Melody Beattie

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. — Damon Wayans

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time. — CM Punk

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

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place — Hal Lancaster

One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school. — Anna Louise Strong

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