Kelli O'Hara Quotes
I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.
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When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
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'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
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As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.
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I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.
