Bryan Ferry Quotes
It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
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I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.
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I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
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Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
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I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
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It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
