Scott Porter Quotes
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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I really love when music artists like Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson wear outrageous things. Obviously, if I wore something like that I'd look like an idiot, but I really respect fashion.
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I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.
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I was raised around music.
