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My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.


Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Tags: Work Sit Behind
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A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.


Richard Branson
Tags: Good Get Behind
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.


John le Carre
Tags: World Which Place
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My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.


Tom Stoppard
Tags: Never Happy Water
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.


Ray Bradbury
Tags: Who Am I Am
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I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.


Jean-Marc Vallee
Tags: Out Make Go
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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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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.


Jeannette Walls
Tags: Morning About Day
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
Tags: Would Were Came
For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.
Henry Samueli
Tags: Me Like Think
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit
Tags: Just Life Your
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Tags: You Me Been
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Salman Rushdie
Tags: Morning Like Get
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
Tags: Men Politics More
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
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
Rosecrans Baldwin
Tags: Life Them Years
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
Siegfried Lenz
Tags: Me Out Come
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
Anthony Horowitz
Tags: Time Up Part
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
Joanna Lumley
Tags: Am I Am Got
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
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.'
Anton Corbijn
Tags: Courage Had Never
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
Tags: Like About Who
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
Tags: Good Get Than
It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
Mallory Ortberg
Tags: Good Love I Love
I love travelling full stop - so while I've had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you're travelling - not when you're chained to your desk.
Richard Branson
Tags: You Had Your
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
Guy Ritchie
Tags: You Because Know
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
Jill Paton Walsh
Tags: Travel Life Being
There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.
Romola Garai
Tags: Who Out World
I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.
Sebastian Coe
Tags: You Life Them
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
Tags: You Me Would
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
D. L. Hughley
Tags: Funny People Me
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: Funny People Me
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
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
Lindsay Fox
Tags: Where Got His
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
Tags: You Really Know
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
Tags: You Because Never
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.
Margaret Haddix
Tags: Get Lot Much
I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
Tags: Great Dad Car
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
Jeff Kinney
Tags: Hope Teacher You
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
Eve Bunting
Tags: Where Own Now