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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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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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
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When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
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I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
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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.
