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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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
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I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
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From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
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The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
