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I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

— Yara Shahidi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

— Janina Gavankar

I grew up in Minnesota.

— Seann William Scott

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

— Ice Cube

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

— Richard D. Zanuck

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

— Doug Ducey

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

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

— Mike McCue

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

— John Hughes

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center.

— Dito Montiel

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

— Jan Koum