Vanessa Ferlito Quotes
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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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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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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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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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.
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We lit the whole world up before we blew up/I still don’t know just how we screwed it up.
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I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians.
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Business must be the solution, not the problem.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
