Kelley O'Hara Quotes
I still have that forward's mentality that when I have the chances, it just ticks me off if I can't put it in.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I still have that forward's mentality that when I have the chances, it just ticks me off if I can't put it in.
