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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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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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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
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"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."
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"I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions."
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"Lyricists play with words."
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"John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him."
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