Kelli O'Hara Quotes
I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
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When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.
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The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.
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My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.
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When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
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Some nights, you want to be George Jetson, and other nights, you want to be sexy.
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Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
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I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.
