Portia Doubleday Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
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The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would think that the cheese man ate cheese but you wrong.
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Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
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I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.
