Portia de Rossi Quotes
I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
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Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
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It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
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Life is essentially a question of values.
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I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
