Fergus Henderson Quotes
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
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I love the tour bunks. I can sleep like a baby in those bunks. It really doesn't bother me at all. A lot of people have a difficult time - they're like, 'It's like a coffin.' I get in there and I just pass out. You can't even wake me up.
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
