Antonio Porchia Quotes
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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
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I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
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I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
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To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
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No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
