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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back."

"The vicious circle of life is employment."

"It is good to work for your living."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

"Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you."
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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
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