John Wells Quotes
It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
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They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
