Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
