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  • Amy Hempel My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Brandon Sanderson My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Ben Folds My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Blank My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ann Druyan My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Anna Held My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blake Farenthold My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Casey Wilson My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Beau Bridges My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bailee Madison My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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