Antonio Porchia Quotes
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I need instant gratification.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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Head coaching options are limited.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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Le bonheur est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
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As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
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I worked hard to complete my medal collection.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
