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Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy
American Novelist
Born: Apr 12, 1947
Died: Oct 1, 2013
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
Government Knowledge You People Knowledge Is Power Power Control Despotic Something Particularly Does Always Form Information Elite
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. Tom Clancy
Veterans Day Fight People Job Country Field Military Our Kids Carry Wear Support Combat Protecting Because Truer Than Sends Representation Them Uniform Us Who Rifles
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. Tom Clancy
Spooky Made Out Be Real Part Stuff Real Up Turned
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Tom Clancy
Life You Change World Will Nothing Responsibilities Dream Obscure Around Real Erase May Duties Your Your Dream Need
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy
Hope Man Invention Changed Both Idea Cannot Which Creature Things
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. Tom Clancy
Me You Loser Show Elitist
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. Tom Clancy
Our Say Out Learned Were Loss Gain Turned Vietnam Lessons Right
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that. Tom Clancy
Life Good You Somebody Else Says Never Had Idea His Up Oh Whenever Who Stands Good Idea
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. Tom Clancy
Today Technology Better Been Condition Than Human Human Condition Reasons Ever
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. Tom Clancy
Spooky Me Will Thought Subconscious Sit Few Down Think Later Typing Chapters Out Characters Find See About Someone Put Amazes Lot Did Goes Place Then Created Certain Why Start
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Tom Clancy
You Matter Will Else Says Bad About Someone Something Does Anyone Anyone Else Who
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. Tom Clancy
You Way Write Until Learn Doing Get Same Golf Keep Play Right Play Golf
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. Tom Clancy
Book Collaboration Unnatural Ultimate Act
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. Tom Clancy
Everything Station Photograph Tried Classify Take Look Train Soviet Soviet Union Happened Them Illegal Union
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. Tom Clancy
Myself Think Writer Storyteller Fundamentally
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. Tom Clancy
Art Books Rules Exactly Never Because Art Forms Different Forms Movies Translate
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. Tom Clancy
God You Director Control Spell Only How Person Artistic Hollywood Who
Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. Tom Clancy
Before Slob Insurance Always Still Author Same Oh Agent Tom Now Basic Here
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. Tom Clancy
War Me People Weapons Physical About Guys More Know Executive Talked Doing Infectious Than Diseases Orders Psychological Use Who

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