Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes

I love going away with friends - it gets a bit raucous and fun.

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Twitter

• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Road
  • Wait

• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Man
  • Sweet
  • Sorry

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Color

• I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Best
  • Years
  • Review

• Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

  

  Aprilynne Pike
  • Work
  • Running
  • Yoga

• People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Energy
  • Obligation
  • Resolution

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Progress

• I love going away with friends - it gets a bit raucous and fun.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Friends
  • Fun