Edie Falco Quotes

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Edie Falco

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Desire
  • Atheist
  • Humanist

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
  • Women
  • Black
  • Beauty

• Good argument is intended to persuade another.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Argument
  • Another

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Changes

• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Family
  • College

• In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Actor
  • Camera

• People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Picture
  • Guilty

• I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Work
  • God
  • Magic

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Me
  • Trust

• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Language
  • Body
  • Skills

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• My baby ohhhCome take control, just grab a holdOf my body and mind; soon we'll be making itHoney, oh we're feeling fineYou're my medicine. Open up and let me in.Darling, you're so great;I can't wait for you to operate.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• 'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

  

  James Douglas
  • Good
  • May
  • Alone

• I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

  

  Carol Alt
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Support
  • Alone
  • Myself