Pam Ferris Quotes
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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It's about softball, ... How as the guys get older and the relationships change, and softball is the only thing keeping them together.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
