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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Everyone
Mother
Else
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Whatever

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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.
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That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
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