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I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

~Crystal Bowersox

Topics: Apart Blue-Collar Church Custodian Dad Did Electrician Falling Family Favor Get Grow Grow Up Her House Job Just Mom Our Poor Really Up

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I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

~Cynthia Kadohata

Topics: Background Because Blue-Collar Come Much Myself People Respect Who Work

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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

~Damian Lewis

Topics: American Background Blue-Collar British Coming Irony Play Tend White-Collar

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Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.

~David Cassidy

Topics: Blue-Collar Contrary Environment Grew Image Me Minutes New New York Opinion Outside People Public Public Opinion Until Up Very York

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My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

~Debra Monk

Topics: Blue-Collar Concept Family Fun Hard-Working Having Having Fun Idea Just Know Made Money People Really Support Thought Were Worked Working You Your

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My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.

~F. Murray Abraham

Topics: Automobile Blue-Collar Boy Brought Cents Coal Family Father First-Rate Gallon Gasoline Hard-Working Like Man Mechanic Miners Pump Respected Thought Up Us Used Were Work Would

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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: Average Because Been Blue-Collar Church Connect Elected Families Feed Folks Found Games Go Mainly Pay Playing Politicians Same Sick Taxes Those Trump Want Way Were Who Worker Years You Mr

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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: Became Bill Bill Clinton Billionaire Blue-Collar Class Clinton Exactly Exactly What Hillary Ironic Like Little Manhattan Mantra Michigan Middle Middle Class More Office Ohio Pennsylvania Somehow States Swept Than Voice Winning

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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: America Believe Blue-Collar Children People Strata Until Wait Working-Class

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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Always Audience Awards Blue-Collar Bring Claimed Ethic Get Gets Good Like Movie New Protestant Things Think Work Work Ethic You I Think

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