Portia de Rossi Quotes

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

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• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Test
  • Cricket

• I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Holidays

• I like performing in front of big crowds.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Like
  • Big
  • Performing

• I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Believe
  • Community

• People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mind
  • Running

• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Knows
  • Selling
  • Salesman

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Prosperity
  • Rather
  • Divide

• When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Beauty

• In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Politics

• In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Air
  • Year
  • Miles

• There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Family
  • May
  • Together

• I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Man
  • Football
  • Rich

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Society
  • Taken

• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  

  Homer
  • Gun
  • Weapon
  • Alligator

• If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • World
  • Advice

• Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Experience
  • Breathe
  • Move

• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  

  Portia de Rossi