Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes
We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.Genevieve O'Reilly
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
Edie Falco -
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater -
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo -
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
Nate Parker -
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
Nawal El Saadawi -
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
Gabe Kaplan -
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
E. L. Doctorow -
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders -
For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
Tabitha Soren -
Fashion is a completely international business.
Carine Roitfeld -
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Elon Musk -
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
Anthony Bourdain -
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban -
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
Idries Shah -
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken -
We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.
Genevieve O'Reilly