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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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
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The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
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I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
