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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
Lee Child
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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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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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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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What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
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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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