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.John Wells
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
T. Boone Pickens -
I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
Harold Ramis -
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Carla Bruni -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Najib Mikati
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
T.I. -
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson -
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Yves Tanguy
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
J. K. Simmons -
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.
Yves Tanguy -
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera -
I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Ina Garten -
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
Dan Castellaneta -
To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.
Jason Momoa -
For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.
Jay Parini -
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.
Azzedine Alaia -
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.
John Wells