Andrew Ferguson Quotes
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
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It was quite an exhibition for three quarters Kobe put on. I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
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Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
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The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
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I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.
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We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.
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This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.
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It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
