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"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."
"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."
"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."
"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."
"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."
Explore more quotes by Mickey Spillane
"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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