A Quote by Aretha Franklin

I paid my dues; I certainly did. — © Aretha Franklin
I paid my dues; I certainly did.
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Some might say I didn't pay enough of my dues, and I think I've paid my dues.
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues; and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.
What the hell, I paid my dues.
When you are as big and strong as Strowman, WWE notices you and basically pays you to go to school. He was paid to train, has a guaranteed contract, and gets paid whether he wrestles or not. He couldn't survive in the actual wrestling business. He never had to pay his dues.
I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
I did this the hard way. I have worked my entire life in this business, and I've done the work - from being on the selling floor to learning to speak Italian to work with manufacturers with John Bartlett. I've done it all. I've paid my dues.
I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.
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