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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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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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 are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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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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Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
