"I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple."
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"There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years."
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"Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it."
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"I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory."
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"I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition."
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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
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"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil."
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"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
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"Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible."
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"Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person."
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"You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success."
1
"Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me."
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"At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in."
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"So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way."
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"We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work."
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"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
1
"My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise."
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"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
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"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."
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