Vera Farmiga Quotes
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I keep in touch with a lot of people I work with.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
