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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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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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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."
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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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"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."
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"We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'"
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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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"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
Courage
"Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas."
People
"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."
Science
"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
Ambition
"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
Job
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
Fiction
"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
Humor
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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