Jay R. Ferguson Quotes
My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My hunger is always there.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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America is another name for opportunity.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.
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My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
