Antonio Porchia Quotes
I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I have rules for everything.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
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I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.
