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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
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Thrills
Tension
Smart
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I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
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I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
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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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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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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
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LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
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Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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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.
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I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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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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A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
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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 was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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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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Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
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