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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
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.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.
When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.
Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'
The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.
I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
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.
No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a desk job at 50.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
I love all Goop products, but I'll always have the Revitalizing Day Moisturizer on my desk at work or in my handbag.
I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
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.
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.
Always be nice to the front desk staff because they can choose to make your life a living hell, and they'll remember you.
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
With tireless hours at your desk or traveling on a plane, it's important that you take time to stay connected to your body.
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
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.