Will Ferrell Quotes

I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.

Will Ferrell

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• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

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• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

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• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

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• In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

  

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• My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

  

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• The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

  

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• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

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• Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

  

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• 'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

  

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• I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

  

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• Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

  

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• My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.

  

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

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• I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pressure