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Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
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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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I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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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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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
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I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
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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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Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.
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All of us write wish fulfillment.
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
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