John Fleming Quotes
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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Bullies always have another target.
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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.
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I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
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When it comes to fashion, follow your instinct.
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Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.
