Vera Farmiga Quotes
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
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I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.
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The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
