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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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'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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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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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
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I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.'
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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.
