Vera Farmiga Quotes
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
