Antonio Porchia Quotes
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
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If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.
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The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
