4 Quotes & Sayings By John Wells

John Wells is an Emmy-Award winning writer, director and producer. He has worked on the Emmy-Award winning series ER (he won for Outstanding Drama Series twice with both ER and Chicago Hope), The West Wing, Men of a Certain Age, and the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love. He also is the creator of the series Third Watch (one of the most popular new shows on television) and has written multiple episodes of Cold Case, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, The Practice, JAG, and NCIS.

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As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations. John Wells
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power. John Wells
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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces. John Wells