Portia Doubleday quotes

“I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.”
-- Portia Doubleday

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“In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.”
-- Portia Doubleday

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.”
-- Portia Doubleday

Source : "Portia Doubleday: A Funny Joke from Spike Jonze's Latest Muse" by Chris Fortuna, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

“An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.”

Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press

“I never use a computer.”

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

“Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.”

“I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.”

“Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.”

“If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1984). “The UNIX Programming Environment”, Prentice Hall