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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• 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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• 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.

  

  Ram Charan
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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.

  

  Gail Godwin
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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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• 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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• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

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• Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  

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• One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

  

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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.

  

  Portia de Rossi
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  • Gay