Vera Farmiga Quotes
I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
