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• I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

  John Scott

  Jobs, Would Be, Novel

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• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

  Jeffree Star

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

  Paul Leautaud

  Jobs, Growing, Aging

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• After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's words.

  Twyla Tharp

  Morning, Jobs, Phones

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

  Jack Wagner

  Jobs, Father, Air

  "Final exam with Jack Wagner". Interview with Brian Murphy, www.golfdigest.com. November 1, 2007.

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• One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

  John Lescroart

  Jobs, Writing, Night

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• Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

  Carrie Jones

  Jobs, Best Job, Loving You

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.37, A&C Black

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• My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

  Stephen Collins

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!

  Dale Archer

  Jobs, Giving Up, Kids

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.43, Penguin

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• It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

  Jasmine Guy

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

  Charley Pride

  Jobs, Singing, Made

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!

  Mark Lowry

  Love, Christian, Time

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• Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Acting, Obsession

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.18, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

  Darren Criss

  Jobs, Names, Musician

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• A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

  Ella Harris

  Retirement, Jobs, Husband

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• I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.

  Jason Graves

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Profession

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• I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

  John Lennon

  Baby, Jesus, Jobs

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• Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

  Alistair Begg

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.

  Jim Cornette

  Jobs, Wrestling, Faults

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