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John F. Kelly Quotes

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

John F. Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1950

Topics

Woman Man Boots Country Dangerous

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

Jo Brand

Love Change Home People Doing You

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

Jennifer Morrison

Bicycle Thieves Favorite Movie Ever

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

Jeff Abbott

Character Hero Focus Villain Believe

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

Amitabh Bachchan

Opportunity Said Say Film Working

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

Steve Berry

Words House I Can Desk New Office

I go back to a very specific aspect of the Midwest - small towns surrounded by farmland. They make a good stage for what I like to write about, i.e., roads and houses, bridges and rivers and weather and woods, and people to whom strange or interesting things happen, causing problems they must overcome.

Tom Drury

Good Roads People Weather Small

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Rupert Brooke

Love Admire Always Us Who Whom

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

Jason Clarke

Amazing Me Experiences Who Believed

It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?

Jools Holland

Myself Queen People End Wedding See

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diablo Cody

People Reality Movies Way Redemption

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

Chris Hadfield

People Control Eye Think Lose See

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Clint Black

Music Computers Finding Information