Will Ferrell Quotes
Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.
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Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
