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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.


Vera Farmiga

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GISELE BUNDCHEN I could have told you before that Crouch is one of the best at what he does,
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KENNETH EADE Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...
EDWARD W. HOWE I love being my husband's wife.
JULIANNA MARGULIES My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS My best buddy died....But He rose again. Just so we could have a chance to sniff a rose again.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
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KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
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LORI HANDELAND I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI The best reference you could ever have is yourself.
WOHI PURANA This is the best we could have hoped for.
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JA RULE That was the best start we could have hoped for.
MIKE EAVES Today's ceremony was all I could have imagined and more. I sure love my husband.
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VERA FARMIGA I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
VERA FARMIGA There's no wrong way to experience a film.
VERA FARMIGA Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
VERA FARMIGA Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice b...
VERA FARMIGA When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ...
VERA FARMIGA I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
VERA FARMIGA It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
VERA FARMIGA Music is what our feelings sound like.
VERA FARMIGA Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
VERA FARMIGA In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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VERA FARMIGA I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being th...
VERA FARMIGA In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is &...
VERA FARMIGA I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
VERA FARMIGA I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say th...
VERA FARMIGA Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
VERA FARMIGA Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just m...
VERA FARMIGA There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come a...
VERA FARMIGA The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes...
VERA FARMIGA There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make ...
VERA FARMIGA I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
VERA FARMIGA I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
VERA FARMIGA Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and ope...
VERA FARMIGA I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the brea...
VERA FARMIGA I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something ...
VERA FARMIGA I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p...
VERA FARMIGA Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep ...
VERA FARMIGA We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a bet...
VERA FARMIGA The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You s...
VERA FARMIGA I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't und...
VERA FARMIGA My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for m...
VERA FARMIGA There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones t...
VERA FARMIGA I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby...
VERA FARMIGA Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
VERA FARMIGA Use the time of stillness as a platform for creative rebirth. It's a gift, given to you at the right...
VERA First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,&...
TAISSA FARMIGA I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.
TAISSA FARMIGA I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'...
TAISSA FARMIGA Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear th...
TAISSA FARMIGA I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan d...
TAISSA FARMIGA I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
TAISSA FARMIGA I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching ho...
TAISSA FARMIGA I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because...
TAISSA FARMIGA If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirem...
TAISSA FARMIGA I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the...
TAISSA FARMIGA Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
TAISSA FARMIGA 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
TAISSA FARMIGA I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and some...
TAISSA FARMIGA The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, becaus...
TAISSA FARMIGA I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it'...
TAISSA FARMIGA Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
TAISSA FARMIGA It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to wo...
TAISSA FARMIGA I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who kno...
TAISSA FARMIGA All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like,...
TAISSA FARMIGA Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does...
VERA WANG Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for othe...
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VERA WANG I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest o...
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VERA WANG Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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VERA MILES I couldn't kill a fly.
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We all s...
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VERA NAZARIAN A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle...
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1. Acceptance
2....
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At other...
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Ignorance is our deepes...
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Prede...
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VERA BRITTAIN Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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VERA BRITTAIN At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violenc...
VERA BRITTAIN There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
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VERA BRITTAIN A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have ...
VERA NAZARIAN In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
VERA NAZARIAN On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.

Wh...
VERA NAZARIAN Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is...
VERA WANG To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredi...
VERA WANG When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophisticatio...
VERA WANG When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the ide...
VERA WANG I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...
VERA BRITTAIN Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creat...
VERA NAZARIAN One of the strangest things is the act of creation.

You are faced with a blank slate—a ...
VERA NAZARIAN Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is th...
VERA NAZARIAN I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearin...
VERA WANG The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try...
VERA NAZARIAN Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
VERA NAZARIAN Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.

And, as with all...
VERA NAZARIAN The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of won...
VERA NAZARIAN Don't look for a soul mate.

Make one -- out of the complex fabric of the human bei...
VERA NAZARIAN The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls t...
VERA NAZARIAN Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the m...
VERA NAZARIAN Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
VERA NAZARIAN When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavend...
VERA NAZARIAN To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
VERA NAZARIAN Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression f...
VERA NAZARIAN The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place o...
VERA NAZARIAN Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
VERA NAZARIAN A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or...
VERA NAZARIAN If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to...
VERA NAZARIAN Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get ...
VERA NAZARIAN You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.

Know that a well-honed...
VERA NAZARIAN The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your m...
VERA WANG I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ...
VERA WANG I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straigh...
VERA WANG My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and ...
VERA WANG My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designi...
VERA WANG Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
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It rings to announc...
VERA NAZARIAN It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."...
VERA NAZARIAN Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

B...
VERA NAZARIAN When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a p...
VERA NAZARIAN Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a com...
VERA NAZARIAN Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion...
VERA NAZARIAN What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautifu...
VERA NAZARIAN Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on ...
VERA NAZARIAN There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who...
VERA BRITTAIN My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
VERA WANG I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instin...
VERA WANG If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, whi...
VERA WANG My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
VERA WANG Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

...
VERA NAZARIAN I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes...
VERA NAZARIAN Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...
VERA BRITTAIN I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about...
VERA BRITTAIN It seems delightfully incongruous,’ he wrote from Armentie‘res, ‘that there should be good sho...
VERA BRITTAIN A number of neurotic ancestors, combined with with persistent, unresolved terrors of childhood, had ...
VERA BRITTAIN When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...
VERA BRITTAIN At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adol...
VERA BRITTAIN But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much di...
VERA BRITTAIN When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...
VERA BRITTAIN There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears ...
VERA BRITTAIN I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict ...
VERA BRITTAIN There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - w...
VERA BRITTAIN He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man o...
VERA BRITTAIN Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue somethi...
VERA BRITTAIN Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...
VERA BRITTAIN I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my...
VERA BRITTAIN That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...
VERA BRITTAIN People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...
VERA BRITTAIN Four impressionable years spent in a number of very different hospitals convinced me once for all th...
VERA BRITTAIN It is always so strange that when you are working you never think of all the inspiring thoughts that...
VERA BRITTAIN The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled...
VERA WANG Here's a funny question:

What is your favorite word?

Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN Luck is not as random as you think.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h...
VERA NAZARIAN Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.

But in the heart of winter, you want a ...
VERA NAZARIAN Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things a...
VERA BRITTAIN I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fac...
VERA NAZARIAN A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of a...
VERA NAZARIAN Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream b...
VERA NAZARIAN Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

Karma is not...
VERA NAZARIAN Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the...
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