Joshua Ferris Quotes
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.
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To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to improvise as he goes seems more refreshing and trustworthy than disqualifying.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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I sat in the truck and had to force myself to rejoin the party. I hated parties—even the ones thrown in my honor.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
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We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
