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 neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
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Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.
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Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
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All I know does not even help me to know it.
