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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."

"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."

"Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career."

"I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to."

"Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me."
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"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy."

"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."

"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."

"Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist."

"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."

"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
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