Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
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They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
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You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
