"Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy."
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"Some things it don't pay to be curious about."
"If you want to play, you gotta pay."
"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
"I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it"
"You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off."
"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
"I've been on a plane before with more money in jewelry than my life insurance policy, and it's one of the scariest feelings in the world... if you lose it, you have to pay for it yourself, and you don't even get to keep it!"
"It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children."
"I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas."
"Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel."
"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
"What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay."
"A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee."
"Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else."
"The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore."
"Third time pays for all"
"Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say."
"An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience."
"Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius."