Aoife O'Donovan Quotes

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

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• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Little
  • Much
  • He

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • View
  • Doors

• It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Time
  • Real
  • Together

• Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Me
  • Film
  • Level

• I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Would
  • Rather
  • Well Known

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Son

• I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Job
  • Nice

• In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Today
  • Single
  • Amendment

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Children
  • Love
  • Kids

• Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Life
  • Envy

• Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Important
  • Writer
  • Chekhov

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Government

• In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.

  

  Anders Petersen
  • Black
  • Knowledge
  • Experiences

• Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

  

  Aoife O'Donovan
  • Bad
  • Show
  • Rolls