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"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
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"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks."
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"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."
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"What is past is prologue."
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"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."
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"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."
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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
Heroism
"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
Nation
"If the public likes you, you're good."
Public
"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."
Books
"Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics."
Writing
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
Writing
"I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of."
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