Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes
I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I would love to do some theater.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I've been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.
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Minerva House … was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.
