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I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home. Genevieve O'Reilly
Home School Accent Australian Irish Used
I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is. Genevieve O'Reilly
Family Enough Say Carry Would Silly Only Most Just Storytellers Really Acting Professional Extended Extended Family Level
What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved it because I love getting to know people from different places. Genevieve O'Reilly
Love People Job Every Out I Love About Know Because Waiter Waitressing Lot Comment Did Getting Being Different Loved Places Different Places Who Actor
Whenever I do a play, there are 'Star Wars' fans at the stage door, and they're always lovely - so excited and so effusive about the storylines and the characters. When you're doing something really serious, and the 'Star Wars' fans are waiting outside, it's a nice juxtaposition. Genevieve O'Reilly
You Waiting Fans Stage Nice Characters About Something Outside Excited Always Doing Whenever Door Lovely Juxtaposition Really Wars Serious Star Star Wars Play
My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity. Genevieve O'Reilly
Time School Drama Drama School About Longevity Always Been Goal
I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example. Genevieve O'Reilly
Example Negotiate Had Like For Example Felicity Spread Quite Even Miller Wide Career
I'm a bit of a mongrel, really! Genevieve O'Reilly
Bit Really Mongrel
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him. George A. Moore
Life Good Property Man World Ethics Personal Life Every Society Unknown Our East Invade Folly Instincts Ideas Knowing Well Him West Personal Different Holds Manner Much Oriental Stands Right Brings Every Man
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. George A. Moore
Way Seems More Wrong Wrong Way Always Reasonable
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. George A. Moore
Sets Everybody Out Something No-One He Does
Men never get free from morality, only women. George A. Moore
Women Men Free Morality Only Never Get
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days! George A. Moore
Hope Day Words Think Thirty Month Thousand Thousand Words Written Putting Days Am Average Right Number
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail. George A. Moore
Religion People Language Feeling Own Believe Must Find More Make Than Salvation Any Arts Avail Much Universal Universal Language
You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe. George A. Moore
Me You Man Soul Brilliant Will Believe Find About Talk Enable Am Behind Middle Middle-Aged Aged Interestingly Many Sufficiently Things Career
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. George Berkeley
Thoughts Mind Will Every Imagination Our Neither Allow Ideas Without Passions Nor Exist Formed Body
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. George Berkeley
You Man Honest Man Says Knave He Himself Sure May Who Thing Honest
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. George Berkeley
Truth Darkest Long Eye See Some Obscure Glimpse Discern Subject May Use Even
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. George Berkeley
Thoughts Words Long Own Easily See My Own Ideas Mistaken How Confine
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. George Berkeley
Man Other Neither Hath Idea Know Nor Exist Whatsoever Any May Whereof Notion Many Things
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. George Bernard Shaw
Men Mercy Action Those Out Clear Until Talkers None Social Who
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw
Life Me Made My Life Affection Every All My Life Has-Been Spite Step Taken Been Forward
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw
Me Will Nice Say About Something Adore Adoring Until Go American Them
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. George Bernard Shaw
World Nothing Wrong Anything Us
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw
Food Few Those Statistics Eating Habit Contract Very Survive Show Who
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. George Bernard Shaw
Secrets Only Themselves Keep
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! George Bernard Shaw
Future Me Personality Big Preserving State About Brute Absurd Idea His Celestial Salvation Personal Intensely Repugnant Roosevelt Rider Rough Imagine
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