Edie Falco Quotes
The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
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The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
