Vera Farmiga Quotes
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
