I'd wasted whole afternoons of my life slaving away at that kitchen table when I could have been doing this simple process instead.
"I don't want to spend the rest of my life slaving away to pay for an education I got for four years and would happily give back," she said.
Newton was a serious alchemist, who spent night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another.
The songs were driven by barrages of drumming and blasts of guitar, professing diehard individualism and resistance to authority: "Don't tell me how to live my life," Slaves on Dope rasped in the day's first set.
I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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If you're someone who has struggled to find the time to pursue your passion in life, you should know Bukowski spent much of his young life slaving away at a dull job within the U.S. Postal Service, utterly terrified to risk trying his hand at writing full time.
She was referring to indecent acts committed by Esteban Montejo, the real-life slave of the title, who lived alone in the forest for years after escaping the Cuban sugar plantation where he was born in 1860.
In the absence of direct confirmation from the strangers, I believe "Kunta" was a reference to Kunta Kinte, the real-life slave and protagonist of Alex Haley's Roots, made into a miniseries in 1977.
Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997) was the real-life slave-mutiny drama, narrated in flashback from subsequent legal proceedings, which gave Postlethwaite another villainous role.
