Billy Porter Quotes
I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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These eight rules above contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.
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The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware of the day-to-day politics that were happening. Living somewhere where the media involvement is greater and so omnipresent, you become pulled into it and, at the same time, because of that, politics changes and the way it's handled changes.
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
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I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
