Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.
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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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People love to be told what they know already.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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We are wiser than we know.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
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There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season of Mary and Jane. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.
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If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
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Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.
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All I know does not even help me to know it.
