"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"

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"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"

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"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."

Time, Money, Hollywood, Yesterday

"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."

Idea, Performance, Being

"I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate."

Hair, Voice, Want

"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."

Entertainment,

"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."

Knowledge, Lent, Name

"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."

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"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"

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"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."

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"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."

Winning,

"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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