Portia de Rossi Quotes
I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
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I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
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When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.
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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
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I never thought I would live this long.
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I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.
