Portia de Rossi
Actress
"When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly."
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Hiding
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Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth"
Randy Harrison
Actor
"By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair."
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer."
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"Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it."
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"The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland."
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"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."
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"Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?"
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"Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him."
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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them."
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"Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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"It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat."
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"If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration."
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"The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything."
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"Language can be very adept at hiding the truth."
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"Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself."
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"Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding."
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"Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination."
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"Try is the opposite of hiding."
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"It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported."
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"It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)"
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