Emil Ferris Quotes
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
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I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
