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"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career."
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"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
"Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds."
"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."
"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."
"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."
"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."
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