John Williams Quotes
For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
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I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
