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I am not a person to quit. If something needs harder work then I will put my head down and do it.
- Shaun Wright-Phillips
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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
- Kate Klise
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
- Lloyd Alexander
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When I get in there, I try to really make sure there's no quit in me and that whoever I fight is going to have a long night.
- Brian Ortega
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Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.
- Muddy Waters
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One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.
- Lil Wayne
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When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.
- John Gavin
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There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
- John Gregory Dunne
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I was always a wannabe 'singer-songwriter' but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my job for nothing. But my friends kept on encouraging me. I kept on writing songs. My first hit was probably my 150th song.
- Anupam Roy
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
- Ogden Nash
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Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
- Raini Rodriguez
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Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.
- Shannon Bream
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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
- Robert Caro
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For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.
- Jennifer Lawrence
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To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.
- Rob Machado
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
- Kaja Foglio
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The fighter knows best. Let them do their job. If they want to quit, they'll quit.
- Josh Barnett
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I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.
- Caroll Spinney
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When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.
- Alison Bechdel
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
- Sugar Ray Robinson
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
- Bobby Knight
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But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
- Steve King
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I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
- Shelley Berman
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
- Rachel Platten
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It's crazy, I almost quit basketball when I was younger.
- C. J. McCollum
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For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.
- Judy Reyes
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The main reason I quit was my lower back. I've had problems for a few years. It was affecting my movement and power. I had to have various injections and procedures.
- Rickie Lambert
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I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
- Carry Nation
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You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.
- Criss Angel
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We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
- Alexander Haig
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I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.
- Jean Smart
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In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.
- Michael Hogan
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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
- Gary Johnson
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My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
- Candace Camp
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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
- John Perry Barlow
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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
- David Zucker
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
- John Breaux
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One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.
- John Oldham
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You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.
- Rick Mears
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I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
- Barry Sanders
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
- Barry Mann
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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
- Perry Chen
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I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.
- Sam Seder
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I'm a Philadelphia fighter in the truest sense. I never quit.
- Danny Garcia
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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
- Bela Lugosi
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
- Carlos Pena, Jr.
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It can be a daunting prospect for any player to know that his opponent will never, ever quit.
- Rod Laver
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I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
- Mary Beth Whitehead
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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
- Donald Miller
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It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.
- John Matuszak
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
- Daniel Cormier
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I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
- Jane Campion
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You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.
- Herm Edwards
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
- Gail Sheehy
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It took me 11 years to get a shot at the WWE championship; not just to win it, but just to get a shot, but luckily I was able to capitalize on that and become WWE champion, but if I had quit I wouldn't have been in that position.
- Kofi Kingston
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I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
- Marcello Giordani
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I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'
- Ryan Paevey
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When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.
- Noah Hawley
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I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.
- Kevin Durant
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
- Bam Margera
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I never quit hustling.
- Bobby Riggs
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I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
- Robert Englund
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Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
- Katha Pollitt
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
- Kate Brown
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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
- Doc Watson
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We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.
- Michael T. Flynn
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
- Olivier Martinez
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
- Olivier Martinez
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I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
- Chad Smith
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I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
- Sue Wicks
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
- Billy Joel
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When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
- MaryJanice Davidson
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If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.
- Jeff Sessions
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As a Navy SEAL, our motto is obviously 'Never Quit,' and our only easy day was yesterday. Send in the Navy SEALS - I think it's time to send the Navy SEALS to Washington!
- Ryan Zinke
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Before I was cast on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I had secretly quit Erika Jayne altogether.
- Erika Jayne
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My husband really treats my writing like it's a job - and he reminds me of that when I have those low moments where I think I should just quit and become a waitress.
- Celeste Ng
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
- Allison Tolman
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I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'
- Meghan Trainor
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It doesn't matter how close I am with someone - I want to beat them so bad that they want to quit golf.
- Justin Thomas
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When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.
- Kerry Washington
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I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.
- Julie Doucet
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
- Malik Bendjelloul
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I quit my software engineer job, decided that I would be a singer, and got married. Those days, there were no platforms like the 'Indian Idol.' It was like, you decide to become a singer, and then what do you do? It must have been tough for my wife getting married to a man without a job.
- Shankar Mahadevan
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I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group of friends who wanted to make it big in films, and that's when the audition for 'Malarvady Arts Club' happened. I got selected, and it opened the doors to my dream world.
- Nivin Pauly
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In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.
- Alistair Horne
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I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.
- Megan Mullally
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When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.
- Jeff Dunham
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I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.
- Amy Weber
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There are plenty of things I wish I'd known when I decided to quit my position at IBM and work on the idea that later became TaskRabbit. Maybe that's why one of the things I cherish most about being a founder and CEO is the opportunity to offer advice to new entrepreneurs.
- Leah Busque
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After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
- Wes Bentley
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I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.
- Cobie Smulders
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I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
- Cobie Smulders
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I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.
- Blake Anderson
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Once you quit football, you might want to come back. But if you sit out a year, you're finished.
- George Blanda
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I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.
- Robin Lord Taylor
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I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
- Andrew Pyper
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I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.
- Jonathan Hickman
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
- Olly Murs
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