"Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing."

-- Portia de Rossi

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“For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.”

Source : "Girls Star Zosia Mamet Shares Why Your So-Called "Flaws" Make You Awesome" by Zosia Mamet, www.glamour.com. January 9, 2014.
“It takes discipline to be a free spirit.”
“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”
“I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.”
“It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.”
“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
“And I know that God and His grace are sufficient for the moment I find myself in. When I wake up tomorrow, whatever the challenges, I know God will be there and will provide His grace. This is my hope. This is my strength.”
“We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.”

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