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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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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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"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
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"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."
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"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
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"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."
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"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."
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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
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"The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world."
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"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
Deception
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
Science
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me."
Medical
"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
Job
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