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Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is fr

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. – Susan Orlean

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I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of student-athletes. I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I dont believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but thats another story. – Susan Orlean

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I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys. – Susan Orlean

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Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. – Susan Orlean

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I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying Ill get it right one day. – Richard Pryor

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The day I finished Twilight, I came home and started bulking up. For New Moon, Im 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight. – Taylor Lautner

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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? – Samuel Goldwyn

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At home its all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I dont want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so Ill go out for a drink with the girls. – Sadie Frost

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