Edie Falco Quotes
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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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.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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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.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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There is not love where there is no will.
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
