Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
Quotes to Explore
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
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Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
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To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
