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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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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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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But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
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The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.
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Sure many people will be shocked when I win, but not me.
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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.
