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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women."


"Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior."


"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."


"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses."


"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."


"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
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