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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.


Vera Farmiga

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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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