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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

"Speaking about work isn't working."

"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."

"I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them."

"I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving."

"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success."

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with."
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