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Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1942

Topics

Money Finance People Me Financial

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

Car Time Job Man Me Night

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Life Game You Playing Losses Going

When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.

Want Pay Because Show Union Dues

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Creative Brain Lost Right Things

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

School Value Book Black Hobby Penny

There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Culture View Unique Now Special

Change before you're forced to change.

Change You Forced Before

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

World Think Place Happen Greatest

My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.

Good Mother Day School King Me

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

I Am Doubt Never Course Staying Am

A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write - but they need to know how. What's the right way? How do the professionals do it? What's the secret?

Antony Johnston

Me Process Know Young Want Way

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

William Shatner

Reading Classic Like Enjoyed Authors

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