Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
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Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
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I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
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Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.
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No, no entro. Porque si entro no hay nadie.
