Anne Hegerty Quotes

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

I've done everything from research to stuffing envelopes.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'

The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.