Gail Porter Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
