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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I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
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I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”
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You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
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I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light. “Raphael’s not the sharing kind.
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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.
