Tom Clancy Quotes

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• Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to…
• I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
• We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
• Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
• Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
• Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
• The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
• The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
• Success will ruin your life.
• There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
• No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
• About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler…
• If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
• Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
• I’ve been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the…
• Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
• The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
• Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are…
• I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial…
• I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

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