Portia de Rossi Quotes
I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.
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The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.
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I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
