Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
