Will Ferrell Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Sunlight is painting.
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
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The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
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You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
