John Wells Quotes
I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.
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I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.
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It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.
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I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.
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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
