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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."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"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."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
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