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Norman MacCaig

"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 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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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."

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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

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"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

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"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."

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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."

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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."

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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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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
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"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
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"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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