Bill Porter Quotes
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
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If I could jump right from one project, have 2 days to rest, and jump right into the next one, I would.
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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Laughing brains are more absorbent.
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The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.
