Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
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But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
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I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.
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For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
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The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
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I really enjoyed the performance tonight, and I've had a whole week of unknowns, being in bed with the flu. Ice is slippery, and anything can happen to anybody. I have seen that at numerous events. I am going to have fun out there and trust my training and not worry. I have figured out that worry doesn't help.
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Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
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Mi yo ha ido alejándose de mí. Hoy es mi más lejano tú.
