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Um, Dues ex machina anyone? -- Rick Riordan
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. -- Sophia Loren
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life. -- Sophia Loren
I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues. -- Ed Sheeran
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I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. -- Mike Tyson
I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. -- Colin Firth
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. -- Albert Shanker
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. -- David Quammen
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. -- James Lee Burke
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. -- Elisabeth Rohm
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion. -- Chuck Norris
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could. -- Kunal Nayyar
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it. -- Tom Waits
I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. -- John Zorn
I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z. -- Bernie Mac
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. -- Sophia Loren
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity. -- Taylor Kitsch
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. -- Linda Chavez
There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. -- Annie Lennox
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. -- Maya Angelou
If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.' -- Christine Woods
What the hell, I paid my dues. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
I'm a believer in paying your dues. -- Dana Fox
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. -- Zoe Kravitz
You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. -- Carol Plum-Ucci
Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool. -- Lupe Fiasco
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me. -- Jesse Jackson
No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life, -- James Robertson
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. -- Bob Dylan
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family. -- Mary Antin
In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues. -- Cynthia Dill
Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues. -- Amanda Bynes
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. -- Howard Rheingold
You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues. -- Richard Pryor
...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues. -- John McCain
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Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. -- Mark Vonnegut
I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set. -- Victoria Pratt
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. -- Elsa Maxwell
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working. -- Griffin Dunne
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip. -- Richard Donner
...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his... -- Anne Fortier
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings. -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit. -- Leif Garrett
I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues. -- Roger Miller
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. -- Alex Haley
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy. -- Ringo Starr
I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that. -- Rita Ora
Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers... -- Big K.R.I.T.
One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues. -- Dean Koontz
Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher. -- Michael Josephson
The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues. -- Amanda Bynes
I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. -- Enrico Colantoni
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad. -- Alan Arkin
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. -- Erma Bombeck
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues. -- Stephen Chbosky
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. -- Michel De Certeau
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues -- Sugar Ray Leonard
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20. -- Rachael Taylor
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. -- Vanna Bonta
When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at. -- Anthony Bourdain
You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues. -- Slash
The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap. -- James Altucher
Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise. -- Brian Bell
My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union. -- Bill Shorten
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues. -- John Caudwell
Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism! -- Israelmore Ayivor
In life, if you are refused membership to a club, you get a refund check for dues paid; what happens to your tithes if Jesus denies you entry to God's Paradise? Mal. 3:10. -- Felix Wantang
Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that. -- CM Punk

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