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"I simply do not distinguish between work and play."
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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
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"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
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"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."
Time
"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
Work
"In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that."
Time
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
Life
"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."
Work
"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I simply do not distinguish between work and play."
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"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
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