Gail Porter Quotes
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
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My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.
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It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
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The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.
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Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lipstick, makeup compliments the clothes.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
