Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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Veramente a così alto sospettonon ti fermar, se quella nol ti diceche lume fia tra 'l vero e lo 'ntelletto.Non so se 'ntendi; io dico di Beatrice.
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The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.
