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"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
Discipline
"Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square."
Music
"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
Character
"I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint."
Work
"I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old."
Time
"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."
Christmas
"At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven't had a cigarette since."
Time
"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."
Gossip
"Everything's coming up roses - for me."
Roses
"I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words."
Care
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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