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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

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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

~Dominick Cruz

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My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.

~Donna Lynne Champlin

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When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

~Doug Tennapel

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My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

~Douglas Preston

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

~Douglas Trumbull

Topics: Eyes First First Job Hal Job Make Screens Surround

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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

~Douglass North

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When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

~Drew Goddard

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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

~Ed Asner

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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Done Family First First Job Job Prestigious Show Tv Tv Show Very Well Well Done Working

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