John Fletcher Quotes
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.
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I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it's going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.
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Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.
