Andrew Ferguson Quotes
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
-
I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
-
For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
-
I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
-
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
-
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
-
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
-
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
-
I always try to give my songs as gifts.
-
I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
-
We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
-
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
-
I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
-
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
-
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
-
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
-
I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
-
Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.
-
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
-
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of things, the logic of things. That's why I don't get that much involved in politics directly.
-
It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
-
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
