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Patricia Highsmith

"I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine."

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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Patricia Highsmith
"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."

Work

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Patricia Highsmith
"I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial."

Justice

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Patricia Highsmith
"I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter."

Progress

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Patricia Highsmith
"I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone."

Dream

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Patricia Highsmith
"That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment."

Writing

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Patricia Highsmith
"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman."

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Patricia Highsmith
"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

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Patricia Highsmith
"I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine."

Work

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Patricia Highsmith
"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."

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Patricia Highsmith
"I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian."

Movies

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