John Williams Quotes
'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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We just here to do our job.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.
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I've been very lucky.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.
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I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.
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You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
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'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
