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Lee Child Quotes

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1954

Topics

Sun Nothing Midnight Miss June UK

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

Good People Me Action Grow You

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Love New York Writing New Kind Two

I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious.

Food Kitchen Eating Feet Bag You

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

Looking Remember Year Find Lost

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

Family Parent Need Single Able Like

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Job Me Performance Treat You Kind

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

Music Writing Sober Playing Started

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Shoes Gentleman Dressed Behave Well

There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.

Doing The Right Thing Doing Right

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.

Colson Whitehead

Men Words Purpose Independence You

Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.

Me Out Going Happened Ever Thing

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Honesty Me Think Honest Used Press

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