Kelli O'Hara Quotes
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.
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As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.
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There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
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What feels best is how I no longer hurt.
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Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.
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I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
