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"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"Employment stereotypes you."
"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
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"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."
"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
"Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends."
"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."
"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."
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