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Quote by William Safire
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. – William Safire

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What are people going to do? Fire me? Ive been fired before. Not book me? Ive been out of work before. I dont care. – Joan Rivers

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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. – Helen Hayes

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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