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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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Personal Development
"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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Personal Development
"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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Personal Development
"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
College
"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
People
"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
Journalism
"Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff."
Time
"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
People
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
News
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
Television
"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
Job
"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."
Nation
"Television's not going read stories to you."
Television
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