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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
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"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."
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"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
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"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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"Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer."
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"My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly."
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"Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return."
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"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
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"My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it."
Family
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
Work
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
Time
"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
Imagination
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Romantic
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
Communication
"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
Memory
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
Job
"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
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