Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes
It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.
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It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.
