Gail Porter Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
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It's like you're wearing a really amazing dress and high heels and you've just gone to the hair salon and gotten a facial and you feel fabulous, and then someone says, You look really awful. You're thinking, Was I completely delusional? That's what having Lyme disease feels like. It was very lonely and for many years I just didn't talk about the way I felt because I assumed if there's nothing wrong on paper, maybe this is just the way a human is supposed to feel, and I'm just complaining about it.
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I've always had an addictive nature.