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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."
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"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."
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"Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about."
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"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
Books
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
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"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
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