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John M. Ford Quotes

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1957 - September 25, 2006

Topics

Me Mean Decide Things Seems Show

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Character End Hollywood Clean Up

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

Happy People Civil Rights Movement

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

I Am Squad Awkward Understood Use

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

Robert Rauschenberg

Today Quality New York Think Place

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

Nature Good Yourself Control Woods

Role-playing games have been a huge part of my life and a huge part of my training as a performer - learning social skills, meeting friends, and being a generally competent person - so I owe a lot to role-playing games.

Life Learning Training My Life Games

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

Green You Party Seriously Run Mayor

Any time it's a Swanton, I'm confident. But if I feel I can't do it, I won't do it.

Time Confident Feel I Feel Any

Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.

John T. Chambers

Government Democracy World You Want

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Memory Brain Forward Meaning You

I love the medium of film.

Love Film Medium I Love

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.

Progress Government Effort Security

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