Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
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Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
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One overindulges when you're younger, and you pay the price in later years. But I always realized how important it was for me to take care of myself and my voice if I was gonna have a voice when I was older.
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Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
