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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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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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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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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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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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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Many gloat over their own troubles.
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Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
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The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
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For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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British comedy fans go crazy.
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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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.
