Bamboo Quote by Elliott Smith

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

— Elliott Smith

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing...…

— Adam Ant

I grew up in Hempstead, NY, and my very first job was working for an environmental organization.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I did a lot of interesting jobs.

— Bonnie Aarons

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

I had a lot of different jobs.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,…

— Katherine Dunn

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had…

— Jack Welch

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there…

— Isaac Brock

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

— Katherine Dunn

I grew up on the Eastern Shore with the Chesapeake Bay as my backyard - name a job out on the water, and I've…

— Ralph Northam

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working…

— Daymond John