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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
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"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."
"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'"
"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."
"Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot."
"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
"When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older."
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"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
"I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in."
"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."
"I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read."
"I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think."
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