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Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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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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The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
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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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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
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Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
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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 have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
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I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.
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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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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 have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
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Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
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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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Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
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