"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."

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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."

Rod Blagojevich, American Politician

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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."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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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."

Barbara Coloroso, American Educator

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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

Bernie Mac, American Actor

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

Fiona Apple, American Musician

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

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."

R. A. Salvatore, American Author

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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."

Danny Glover, American Actor

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"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

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"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."

People

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

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"Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry."

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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

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

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."

"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."

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"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

"Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry."

"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

"I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long."

"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."

"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."

"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."