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LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
Lee Child
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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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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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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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I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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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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