A Quote by Genevieve O'Reilly

I'm a bit of a mongrel, really!

Genevieve O'Reilly

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Bit Mongrel Really

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Genevieve O'Reilly
Irish - Actress
Born: January 6, 1977

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

George Bernard Shaw

Australia play best when they've got a bit of mongrel about them, when they play hard out in the middle, when they don't give an inch, when they play an aggressive brand of cricket.

Glenn McGrath

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Mark Twain

Playing live is much more natural for me. The instant reaction and the feedback from the audience is great for me. I really relish it. And if you play blues-based music, it's not really academic music or recital music. It really needs a bit of atmosphere and a bit of interplay and a bit of roughness, and you really get that with an audience.

Rory Gallagher

Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It's a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You're acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I'm a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.

Riz Ahmed

I'm a class mongrel.

Melvyn Bragg

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

Eoin Colfer

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

Pete Doherty

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Patricia Briggs

So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

Kazuo Ishiguro

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Salman Rushdie

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

James Corden

In BMX, you need an inner mongrel, something that's a point of difference in the female category.

Caroline Buchanan

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.