Portia de Rossi Quotes
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
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I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.
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As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
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I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
