Gail Porter Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
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'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
