Ahna O'Reilly Quotes
I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.
Quotes to Explore
-
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
-
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
-
A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
-
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
-
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
-
A teacher should have a creative mind.
-
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
-
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
-
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
-
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
-
My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
-
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
-
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
-
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
-
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
-
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
-
I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
-
It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
-
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
-
I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.
