Portia Doubleday Quotes
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
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Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.
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Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have enormous influence. If you fail, you have still learned something, and your next attempt is sure to be better for it. Advice to graduates: Do something you really enjoy doing. If it isn’t fun to get up in the morning and do your job or your school program, you’re in the wrong field.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
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I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.
