"They pick your brains, break your heart, ruin your digestion -- and what do you get for it? Nothing but a lousy fortune."
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Speaking with friend and colleague ; as quoted in Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (1997) by Cari Beauchamp
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Lenore Coffee
(13 July 1896 – 2 July 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
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