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

  

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

  

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

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
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• 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
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• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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  • 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
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• If I can be a leader, I will.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • 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

• When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Star
  • Working

• I wrote my name upon the sand;I thought I wrote it on thine heart.I had no touch of fear, that words,Such words, so graven, could depart.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Fear

• Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Stories
  • Sides
  • Dull

• Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Experience
  • True
  • Dream

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

  

  John Williams