Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.
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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
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I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.
