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One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job. -- Will Ferrell
A real job is a job you hate. -- Bill Watterson
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job. -- Sam Walton
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job. -- Harrison Ford
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job. -- Chris Liddell
'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music. -- Adam Levine
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. -- Vivian Campbell
I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant. -- Gwen Stefani
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job! -- Ken Spillman
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
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living! -- Jeremy Irvine
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job. -- Lady Gaga
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too. -- Daphne Guinness
I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?' -- Rick Baker
I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job. -- Adam Hughes
My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -- Bill Hader
Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. -- John Sununu
I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up. -- Teresa Heinz
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. -- Harlan Coben
When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur. -- Nick Woodman
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor. -- Michael Arrington
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it. -- Matthew Quick
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be. -- Anne Lamott
Your real job in this world is to be you. -- India.Arie
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. -- Shane Black
I feel as if you're saying that DJ is not a real job. -- Jack Black
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. -- Sylvia Plath
IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER. -- Brian Tracy
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. -- Zig Ziglar
I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job. -- Carl Lewis
Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion. -- Jimmy Kimmel
It's a real job I said. Getting promoted to martyrdom is not the top position. -- Sam Wazan
It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real. -- Lee Pace
SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half. -- Hannibal Buress
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. -- Doug Stanhope
Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person. -- Elisabeth Rohm
Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions. -- Peter Roskam
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. -- Paul Ryan
I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job. -- Sarah Addison Allen
No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good. -- Lois Wyse
The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music. -- Adam Levine
When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please. -- Hamish Linklater
What real job?what political world?would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name? -- Spencer Pratt
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real. -- Morgan Freeman
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job. -- Jimmy Wales
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream." -- Michael Glawogger
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. -- Francois Truffaut
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real. -- Paul Walker
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real. -- Gene Wilder
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them. -- Terence McKenna
It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real. -- Hayley Atwell
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job." -- James Fallows
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job. -- James Fallows
There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time. -- Melissa McBride
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!. -- Ken Spillman
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went. -- Tupac Shakur
People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time. -- James Packer
I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that. -- Daniel Tosh
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too. -- Ivanka Trump
I wouldnt want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldnt for the life of me do the job in real life. -- Jim Carter
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. -- Graham Yost
My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance. -- Ken Bruen
I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life. -- Jim Carter
An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. -- Wentworth Miller
Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it. -- Maurice Levy
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. -- Laurence J. Peter
The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family. -- Kim Raver
It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique. -- David Lean
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see. -- C. S. Lewis
One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life. -- Karl Urban
It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible. -- Barack Obama
You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job. -- Nick Kroll
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. -- Herman Cain
I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience. -- Zoe Kravitz
When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?' -- Kevin Harrington
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. -- Mark Twain
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. -- Michael Steele
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company. -- Ester Dean
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with. -- Joyce Meyer
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me. -- Francine Rivers
I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money. -- Method Man
I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job? -- Rick Baker
The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within. -- Peter Murphy
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job. -- Paul Reiser
If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers. -- Marc Benioff
My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself. -- Freddy Adu
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. -- Thomas Perry
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. -- Black Francis
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. -- Black Francis
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again. -- Rufus Wainwright
You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job. -- Laurence J. Peter
I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job. You have to produce. That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years. -- Joe Biden
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary. -- Arundhati Roy
I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do. -- Hans Zimmer
My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive. -- Imelda May
Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me. -- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career. -- Caroline Wozniacki
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. -- Carlos Alazraqui
I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened. -- Dave Barry
I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere. -- Joel McHale

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