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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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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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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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
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Santa will be showing up with Rudolph the Red-Eyed Reindeer.
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I want to thank the fans so much for their support through the years. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. They're the greatest. They're the ones who make the stars. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.
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Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
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Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
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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.
