Kelli O'Hara Quotes
There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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No matter what you think of David Koresh or the people that died there, they died for what they believed in. And that's more than I can say for a lot of people.
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When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.
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There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.
