Finneas (Finneas Baird O'Connell) Quotes

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

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• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Community

• My family were pretty big hippies.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Big

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Respect
  • City

• The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings, And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings. She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things, The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • She
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Passion
  • Theatre

• I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

  

  Penelope Keith

• Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Competition
  • Connection
  • Profound

• My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

  

  Lauren Bowles
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
  • People
  • Great
  • Anchor

• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• I'm in a band with my three sisters called the Atomics, which is awesome.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Band
  • Awesome

• Hard times always lead to something great.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Great

• I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

  

  Anna Torv

• I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

  

  John Cho
  • Up
  • Dad
  • English

• ... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Religion
  • Arrogance

• I don't hate Muslims, I hate Islam.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Hate
  • Islam

• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle

• The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

  

  Finneas
  • Song
  • Brain
  • Catalog