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"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."
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"If the public likes you, you're good."
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"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."
Family
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
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'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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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Fear
"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
"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
People
"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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