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"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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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."
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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."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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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."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."
Life
"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
Job
"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."
Food
"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."
Writing
"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
Aspiration
"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."
People
"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went."
Poetry
"You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either."
Time
"Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever."
Change
"There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round."
Hope
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