“They don't pay me to think, they pay me to be an Admiral.”
Archibald Berkeley Milne (1855–1938) Royal Navy admiral
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“This…is why screenwriting pays so well. They don't pay me to write. I'd write for free. They pay me NOT to punch people in the neck.”
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