Vera Farmiga Quotes
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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History's a resource.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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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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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.
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'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.
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It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
