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"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."
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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."
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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."
Writing

"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
Thought

"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading

"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life

"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."
Time

"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
Employment

"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
Fact

"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."
Computer

"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
Science

"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
Environment
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