Vera Farmiga Quotes
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I choose to express myself.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
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I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
