Taissa Farmiga Quotes
One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Photography is an accident.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
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I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
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And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him. The girl in front of him seemed to disappear, and all there was in the hallway was him and the sweet, beautiful smell of his blood.
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That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
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One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."
