Desks Quotes - Page 20

• Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.

  Robert Leckie

  Morning, Writing, Eye

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• I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dog, Writing, Somewhere Else

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.

  Kristina Schroder

  Responsibility, People, Might

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• Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.

  Wesley Pruden

  Military, Writing, Night

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• Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Jobs, Heart

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• I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

  Sxip Shirey

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Order

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• Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

  Natalie Massenet

  Creating, Iphone, Shoes

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• I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.

  Tom Ford

  Hate, Dark, Hands

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• I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

  Eric Idle

  Suffering, Problem, Bent

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Night, Air, Discipline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

  Chad Harbach

  Jobs, Long, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have some breaking news from our dedicated kale coverage desk here at NPR.Starting now, Chick-fil-A has kale on its menu next to the spicy chicken sandwich and the waffle fries. It's called the Superfood Side.

  Ari Shapiro

  Kale, Npr, News

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

  Victoria Chang

  Jobs, Kids, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.

  Richard Masur

  Character, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

  Adina Porter

  Teacher, Son, Trying

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• I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Stuff, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

  Mark Ronson

  Guy, Buttons, Use

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Procrastination, Quirky

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Trying, Way, Lists

  Source: time.com

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• I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.

  Raf Simons

  Thinking, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

  Douglas Booth

  School, Numbers, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Cds, Interesting

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.

  Rolonda Watts

  Pet, Supportive, Bed

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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