Adam Ferrara Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
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I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.
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Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
