Antonio Porchia Quotes
La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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'Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God,' I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
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On 'Heaven Beside You'. **Interview with Request Magazine, February 1996.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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Il ne savait rien, ne voulait rien savoir, en quoi il se conformait à son génie, dont il ne surchargeait point l’aimable petitesse, et son heureux instinct lui conseillait de comprendre peu plutôt que de comprendre mal.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.
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The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
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I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
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La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,
