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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Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.
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This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.
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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
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Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's
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Haiti had leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture, Henri Christophe, and why not a second King for the Kingdom of Haiti
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Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.
