Antonio Porchia Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.
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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
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We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
