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John Williams Quotes

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1932

Topics

You Look Go Know Comfortable First

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

May-Britt Moser

Stars Children Eyes Curious Born Go

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

Matt de la Pena

Style Poetry Loved Feelings Way

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Family Love Father Mother Together

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Stephen Sondheim

Great Cry Two Audience Disbelief

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

People Me Think Care Bad Cry

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

Sports People You Dream Professional

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Work Good I Am You Done My Own

The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

Responsibility Practice Political

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

Montel Williams

Ignorance Money Brother Crazy Think

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Journey Point Poet Departure Arrival

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

Stand Up Stand Doing Actor My Own

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

Peter Greenaway

Success Thought Wish Logic Finding

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