John Williams Quotes
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.John Williams
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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 -
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 -
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler -
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
Orson Welles -
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
Nancy O'Dell -
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
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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 -
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 -
When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
Dane Cook -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
Mara Wilson -
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 -
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 -
I'm becoming more adventurous.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
Laura Riding
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Having an exit strategy can be a social saver.... The key is keeping your little white lie plausible.
April Masini -
I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.
Echo Bodine -
The Aryan stands firm, one with God in his attitude to the world and its people.
Adolf Hitler -
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
John Williams