Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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I think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
We are not communists.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
