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.
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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.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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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.'
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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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.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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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.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
