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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
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"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."
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"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."
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"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."
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"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."
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"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
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"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
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"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing

"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry

"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems

"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy

"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity

"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
Literature

"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
Employment

"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman
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