My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges... view

By: Richard Russo

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I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!.. view

By: George Sidney

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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day... view

By: Jeanette Winterson

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Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced... view

By: Betty Hill

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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them... view

By: Dan O'Brien

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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941... view

By: Albert Speer

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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright... view

By: Lee Kuan Yew

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When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work... view

By: Pia Zadora

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It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it... view

By: Reese Witherspoon

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As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie... view

By: Pierre Salinger

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Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!.. view

By: Roger Moore

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America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home... view

By: Mitt Romney

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