Gail Porter Quotes
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.
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Open platforms and experimental amateurs … eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. … Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
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My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
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I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.
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I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
