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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
Lee Child
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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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Film Actor
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
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A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
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They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.
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I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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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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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
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The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
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Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
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I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
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The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
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