Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
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• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Perfect
  • Old
  • Jeans

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
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• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
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  • Three
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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• You put high heels on and you change.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • High
  • You
  • Change

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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  • More
  • Many

• I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mother
  • Think
  • You

• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Career
  • Cool

• That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Great
  • Getting Older

• My mother, actually, is a therapist.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mother
  • Actually
  • Therapist

• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Powerful
  • Scenery

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guilty

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it for the next one.' We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Song
  • Holiday

• Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

  

  Mario Draghi
  • Up
  • Broken

• Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Business
  • Teach
  • Theater

• He made him a hut, wherein he did putThe carcass of Robinson Crusoe.O poor Robinson Crusoe!

  

  Samuel Foote

• I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Great
  • Why
  • Mother