David Ferry Quotes
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.'
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In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
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Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.
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Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.
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I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to become something else. I get spun around by what happens in words. When that occurs, it inspires images that seem so original to me as an artist, even though I'm following what the poem has offered.
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I don't think in terms of projects.
