- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.
- Different Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.
- Bedtime
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- Nov 07, 2020
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
- All My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked during summers on the foreign exchange desk as a dollar/yen broker for Noonan, Astley & Pierce. I used to write the chairman notes about how he could improve his business. And I met Bernie Cantor through this job.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
- Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
- Four
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
- Herbert
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I plan to die at my desk.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was terrible at desk jobs.
- Nov 07, 2020
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020