Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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at the Engvalls' home, Travis is about to play on the piano.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.
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I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
