John Fleming Quotes
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
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Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.
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America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
