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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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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."
"Your life content reduces with employment."
"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
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