Heather O'Reilly Quotes
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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History will treat me right.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
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The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things. Until it was no more. Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone. The birth of a city... It had become the death of a world.
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You need to feel like you're wearing the clothes, and they're not wearing you.
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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
