Antonio Porchia Quotes
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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The actor in me can never die. It's my first love and first dream. That's what keep me going.
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Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
