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"I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

"Speaking about work isn't working."

"Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing."

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."

"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."
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"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."

"I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world."

"When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy."

"Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth."

"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."

"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"
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