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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I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.
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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.
