Ray Fearon Quotes
My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy - a bit of chest pain, arm strain, or indigestion. People ignore those symptoms because they think it's trivial. Don't feel afraid to come forward.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I'm not a party person.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.
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If there is one person I could have on my side against impossible odds, it’s her.
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I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
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She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
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My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy - a bit of chest pain, arm strain, or indigestion. People ignore those symptoms because they think it's trivial. Don't feel afraid to come forward.
