Gail Porter Quotes
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
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You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
