Vera Farmiga Quotes
Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I'm a proud family man.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.
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There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
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So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.
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My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me.
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
