Joshua Ferris Quotes
Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
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Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
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Almost everything is small and not only that, almost everything is rare.
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A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.
