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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
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"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."

"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."

"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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