Vera Farmiga Quotes

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

Vera Farmiga

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LiveGreatNew YorkMovingScenery

We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.

Joe Russo

JourneyArtOpportunitiesBrandFind

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John le Carre

FamilyMeClothesYouDirtyDown

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

MoneyPoetryEitherThen

When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.

John Stumpf

GoodPowerPersistenceLearnYou

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

Amy Bloom

LifeAmericaGrandchildrenNiceHer

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!

Sophie Kinsella

MorningBookChocolateEarlyFind

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

Romeo Santos

PassionMyselfWritingSingingNever

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

Mira Nair

CultureHappyMeWorldSpeakValues

I truly believe there is this confidence gap, at least for me. You have to 'manipulate' yourself to get over it,and I do think it has something to do with being a female. If you live in fear or doubt and have that confidence gap, you are simply not going to achieve your full potential and what you know you can achieve.

Julia Hartz

FearConfidenceLiveYourselfMe

My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

Chord Overstreet

RoadsMeTruckDriveBackOld

I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.

Antonio Brown

LifeFightingMy LifeTryingFind

I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, 'Wow, this is amazing!' But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.

Pepa

AmazingStartTouchNeverAwePark

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