John Wells Quotes
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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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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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
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Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
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When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. That we're now in a stalemate was both entirely predictable, and predicted. That we're now relying on drones is disturbing. How vital can a cause be if we're not willing to risk American lives to defend it, and instead use robots and remote control operators? It gets me back to the larger feeling about the intervention - there's just not a compelling reason for us to be involved.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
