Vera Farmiga Quotes
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
Quotes to Explore
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I've always been a narcissist.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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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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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
