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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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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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
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People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
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America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
