"I saw the devastation and I wanted to……" — John Williams
"I saw the devastation and I wanted to help. People need to know that...we are here for them. They need words of encouragement and to know that everything is going to be OK."
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39 Quotes by John Williams
John Williams has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather…
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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've never known anyone that is a better manager of people or is a harder worker than Kessel. His willingness…
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More Devastation Quotes
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Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing…
— Jo Bonner
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My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she…
— Caroline Kennedy
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Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
— Nathaniel Branden
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No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to…
— Michael C. Burgess
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction…
— Tim Field
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To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain…
— Norman Lamm
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
— Sharon Salzberg
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I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks…
— Deacon Jones
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
— N. Scott Momaday
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look…
— George Eliot
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