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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I haven't thought too much about the word 'foodie,' but I definitely lie closer to the 'I just need to eat a thing to fuel myself' end of the spectrum. It's not quite a hobby. I don't feel a need to try all the newest restaurants.
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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
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I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.
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Competition between men is a fuel that's useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn't tell the same story over too many times, but it's amazing how durable that story is.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
