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"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."
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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."
"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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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."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
"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."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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