"My goal is to try to avoid a regular job."
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"I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job."
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"I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated."
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"If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine."
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"I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job."
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"I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own."
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"I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change."
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"Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'"
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"According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job."
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"California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up."
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"Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement."
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"I dont need a pardon. I need a job."
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"The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC."
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"The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates."
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"Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles"
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"When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important."
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"The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job."
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"It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening."
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"This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair."
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"One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession."
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