Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
