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.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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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.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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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.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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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.
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I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."
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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.
