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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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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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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I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.
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I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
