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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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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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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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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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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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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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"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."
Ideas
"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."
Books
"I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time."
Time
"It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering."
Awareness
"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."
Job
"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."
Character
"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
Being
"I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice."
Voice
"I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read."
People
"If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't."
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