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• Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

  Vikas Swarup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation, Concentrate

• Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Occupation

• Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.

  Jules Renard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation, Proving

• I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.

  Lil' Kim

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dancing, Occupation

• I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don’t think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Occupation, President

• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Tim Russert

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Occupation

• Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Part, Occupation

• Writing is a solitary occupation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  Ted Rall

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Occupation

• The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

  William H. Wharton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Occupation, Granted

• The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

  Gerard Debreu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in German, Occupation

• To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation

• I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Tags in Britain, Occupation, Admiring

• My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation

• I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Occupation, Organize, Instinctively, Privileged, Emerged, Dimension, Allow

• Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

  George Lucas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Occupation

• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

  William Osler

  Tags in Occupation, First Step

• A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Businessman, Occupation

• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

  Laurence Olivier

  Tags in Adult, Occupation, Actors And Acting

• Another occupation might have been better.

  F. H. Bradley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupation, Might