Antonio Porchia Quotes
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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There's a common misconception that you don't need SPF during the grey winter months, but it's so important to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays year-round.
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History is on the side of the regulators.
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September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?
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It's a long struggle being an actor; I don't know if I'd ever recommend it to anybody!
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For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.
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I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
