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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The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.
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This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap. 1
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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Quien busca en su bien un bien mayor, pierde su bien.
