Portia Doubleday Quotes
I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.
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A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
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I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.
