Jeff MacNelly quotes

“A career is a job that has gone on too long.”
-- Jeff MacNelly

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“Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.”
-- Jeff MacNelly

Source : "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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“The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.”
-- Jeff MacNelly

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“Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.”
-- Jeff MacNelly

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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".”

“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well”

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”

“My career is my girlfriend.”

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.