Gail Porter Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
L'Wren Scott -
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Taylor Swift -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan -
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna -
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs -
I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
Laura Harring -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
Indra Nooyi -
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
Edmund Phelps -
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
La'Porsha Renae -
People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
Talia Balsam -
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry -
I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter