Edie Falco Quotes
I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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'It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.'
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You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness...
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Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
