"The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one."
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"I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to."
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"I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things."
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"You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury."
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"I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight."
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"Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot."
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"I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity."
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"She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America."
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"People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed."
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"So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked."
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"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."
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"I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs."
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"I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment."
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"No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't."
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"I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out."
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"LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever."
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"Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game."
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"I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time."
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"You do not mess with the special investigators."
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"I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End."
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