Charles Ferguson Quotes
When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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I am definitely going to college!
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Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
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When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
