John Williams Quotes

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • War

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Future

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • World
  • Prison

• Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Up
  • Important
  • Culture

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• If I can be a leader, I will.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Leader
  • Will
  • I Can

• The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Best
  • Film
  • Director

• I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Stop
  • Government

• Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Great
  • Talent
  • Collaboration

• What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Wine

• The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Medicine
  • Old Age

• If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Cause I am a Superwoman, Yes I am, Yes she is, Even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest, With an S on my chest, Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman, ... And all my sisters, Coming together, Say yes I will, Yes I can

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Together
  • Sister
  • Mess

• Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.

  

  John Banville

• As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

  

  John Williams