William R. Ferris Quotes
The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?
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I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
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It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
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That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.
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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
