Taissa Farmiga Quotes
I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
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My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
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I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught a picture of myself, and I was like, 'God! What was I thinking about?'
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
