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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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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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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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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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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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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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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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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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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What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
