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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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!
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There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
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My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.
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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.
