Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
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Music is my first love.
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You'll see it when you believe it.
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In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.
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Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
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I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.
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Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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Un poco de ingenuidad nunca se aparta de mí. Y es ella la que me protege.
