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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.
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.
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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.
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.
My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
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.
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.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
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.
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 a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
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.
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
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