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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."

"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."

"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."

"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."

"Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more."

"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

"I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing."
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"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."

"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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