Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
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Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
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I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.
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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing.
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Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
