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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#because #both #called #catholic #churches

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#book #buy #end #first #get

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#author #i #i am #now #writer

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#became #books #captain #captain america #comic

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#die #elvis #get #hero #heroes

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me! ↗

— Brent Spiner

#day #exactly #hope #i #i think

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#fictional #having #i #much #prefer

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#causes #concern #i #i think #me

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#comic relief #data #i #i think #mistaken