There isn't a day I do not work at my JOB, or a waking MOMENT when I do not THINK through a work-related PROBLEM. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.
EVERY hour I SPENT on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in ENGLAND or DEGRADED has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are WORKING long hours.
SOMETIMES when troops are OVERSEAS working these incredibly LONGHOURS in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.
SOMETIMES, when I'm sitting at my DESK for long HOURS and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her EYES lit up when she SAID, 'This is really good.'
At my ashram, people work LONG hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are INVOLVED and joyfully doing something, they usually TURN out ten TIMES more and do more than what they would normally do as a DUTY.
A lot of the TV shows, they do LONGHOURS, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good THING is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a PLACE you want to be, you get to go home every night.
I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has SPENTMANY, many long hours on her knees PRAYING for me. And I GUARANTEE you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more OFTEN than not. So it sustains me.
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.
I do THINK people WOULD be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this TOGETHER in many ways in TERMS of these LONG hours and in terms of really sharing a desire to get information to the American people.
TV requires a lot more patience. No one's EVER like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an EASY life. With 'Silicon Valley,' it's long HOURS and very unglamorous.