Portia de Rossi Quotes
People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
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I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.
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I'm a fan of LeBron James. I'm not really a team fan; I'm just a fan of one player.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.