Kelli O'Hara Quotes
I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
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I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
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I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.
