Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I could live naked... I love it.
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Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
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When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
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When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.
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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
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Quien busca en su bien un bien mayor, pierde su bien.
