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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."
"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
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