Edie Falco Quotes
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.
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I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.
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Look around at the countries of Europe, and you'll find that practically all of them have pasts that are just as tragic as Ireland's, yet the people seem able to find some creative way at moving into the future.
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
