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.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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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.
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
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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.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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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.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
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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.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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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.
