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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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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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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I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
