Vera Farmiga Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
