John Wells Quotes
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.
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You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements’ scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let’s face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?
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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
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He wos wery good to me, he wos!
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
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You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.