"Any working composer or painter or sculptor will……" — John Williams
"Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted."
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39 Quotes by John Williams
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So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something…
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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I think of myself as a film composer.
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Composing music is hard work.
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
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When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil…
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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because…
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As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay…
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I saw the devastation and I wanted to help. People need to know that...we are here for them. They need…
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I've never known anyone that is a better manager of people or is a harder worker than Kessel. His willingness…
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the…
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go…
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
— E. M. Forster
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In…
— Samuel Johnson
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
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The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event…
— Emile Borel
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in…
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and…
— George Washington
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to…
— James Madison
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