Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes
I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.
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We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.
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When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
