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"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"Life experience is the new work experience."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."
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"I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs."
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"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
Road
"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
Career
"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
American
"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."
Compliment
"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."
End
"The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea."
Time
"Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer."
Hope
"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."
Illusion
"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."
Life
"My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all."
Religion
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