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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
- Robert Orben
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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.
- Pico Iyer
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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.
- Evan Hunter
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I was late to the game on D.R.A.M.; I knew of 'Cha Cha,' but then I saw his Tiny Desk Concert, and I was hooked. I love how happy he is.
- Sasheer Zamata
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One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
- Leonid I. Brezhnev
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Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
- Jhonen Vasquez
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I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
- Jamie Zawinski
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I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
- Ramon Rodriguez
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I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.
- Jason Katims
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I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.
- Hilary Mantel
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When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.
- Ann Leckie
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I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
- Rick Boucher
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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.
- Peter Straub
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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.
- Sarah Addison Allen
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
- Norman MacCaig
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I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.
- Dean Bakopoulos
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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.
- Bun E. Carlos
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'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'
- Morena Baccarin
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When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
- Ruth Ozeki
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The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
- John McCain
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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.
- Richard N. Haass
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The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
- Helen Hunt
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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
- Simon Beaufoy
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I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic.
- Ruth Wilson
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I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
- Gina Raimondo
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
- Maira Kalman
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As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.
- Christine Leunens
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
- Lynn Coady
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
- Bill Clegg
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I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
- Christopher Parker
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I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.
- Markus Zusak
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It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.
- Cristin Milioti
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
- Bob Woodward
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I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email and going through jokes. I haven't walked on it in probably four months. Now it's more of an upright dining table for me. At some point, moss will grow over it, birds will build nests, and nature will reclaim the treadmill as its own.
- Jimmy Kimmel
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Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.
- Stacey D'Erasmo
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When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
- Ayobami Adebayo
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
- John Grisham
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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.
- J. R. Moehringer
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Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.
- Martin Clunes
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes
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My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
- Reem Acra
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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
- Chelsea Cain
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I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.
- Tig Notaro
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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
- Raina Telgemeier
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With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
- John Burnside
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I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
- Hart Crane
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I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
- Les Claypool
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Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
- Georges Simenon
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Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower books. Now I love flowers on my night table and on my desk.
- Aerin Lauder
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My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.
- Neal Asher
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I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
- Audrey Meadows
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If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.
- Abi Morgan
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'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
- Hilary Mantel
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I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
- Chuck Pagano
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
- Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter.
- Tanya Saracho
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Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
- Mona Simpson
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We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
- Marc Guggenheim
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To have come here as an intern for the 'Today' show, to shoot that reel - I looked so serious. To be terrified like that and then to come and sit at this desk, to sit next to my friend Peter Alexander every Saturday, it is the honor of a lifetime.
- Kristen Welker
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The biggest boss has the clearest desk.
- John Cho
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One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
- Tess Gerritsen
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The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
- Stacy Schiff
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I was the most reckless little kid. I only had guy friends. I had a Nintendo, and when I went to normal school, I used to tape it under my desk and then pull it out and play on it.
- Sofia Richie
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
- Howard Rheingold
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A desk for $350 a month in a common area is not as cheap as a coffee shop. But a lot of people would say they're empowered by that environment in a way that makes it worth it.
- Miguel McKelvey
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There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
- Tony Scott
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No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
- Ant Middleton
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I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.
- Haruki Murakami
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
- John le Carre
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I plan to die at my desk.
- Don Hewitt
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
- Kenneth Lonergan
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To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
- James Horner
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
- Ray Bradbury
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
- Orson Welles
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The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
- Michelle Obama
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I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
- Michelle Obama
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
- Ronald Reagan
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.
- Ivanka Trump
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
- Grantland Rice
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It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
- Michio Kaku
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I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.
- Chris Christie
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My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
- Geraldine Ferraro
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It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.
- Len Wein
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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
- Janine di Giovanni
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
- Gloria Swanson
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My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
- Linda Sue Park
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
- Harold S. Geneen
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
- Annie Dillard
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I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
- Katharine Graham
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I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?
- Jann Wenner
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
- Stephen King
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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
- Stephen King
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
- Roald Dahl
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
- Rahm Emanuel
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Laurence J. Peter
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
- Calvin Coolidge
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
- Anais Nin
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In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
- Bruce Springsteen
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