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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"If you can laugh together, you can work together."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art

"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love

"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
Experience

"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
People

"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship

"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature

"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics

"Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate."
Literature

"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
Fun
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