Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
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Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
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I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.
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I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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You have to have a short memory as a closer.
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
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Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.
