Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
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My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.
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An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
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You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
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I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
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Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.