B. J. Porter Quotes

Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Prosperity
  • Measure
  • Bear

• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Culture
  • Intelligent
  • Involved

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Die

• The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

  Garry Kasparov
  • May
  • Want
  • Game

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Future
  • Same
  • Diversity

• Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Characters
  • Point
  • Finding

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Growth

• The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Lost

• Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

  

  James Watkins
  • Different

• I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Why

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• Beloved King of Comedy.

  

  Michael Sinnott
  • Comedy
  • King
  • Kings

• Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Comedy
  • Release
  • CDs