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"The world system is employment."

"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."

"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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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."

"Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof."

"If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead."

"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."

"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."

"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."

"I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing."
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