"Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance."

“Life is short, but the years are long.”

“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you”

“Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.”

“But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.”

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“I took some sense and made a nickel of it.”

“All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.”

“At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.”

Source : "Jesse Tyler Ferguson Dishes About Tie The Knot, Making The Award-Show Rounds And The Biggest ‘Modern Family’ Diva". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.