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"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
Time

"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
Communication

"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
Want

"My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it."
Family

"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on."
Time

"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
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"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
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"If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities."
Family
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