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- Nov 07, 2020
Desk Quotes
Sayings on scripts, keepsakes, and life behind a desk.
These quotes look at the desk as a place where ideas land and memories sit, from an unforgettable script that needed no changes to a treasured globe kept close by for inspiration.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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.
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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