Antonio Porchia Quotes
Hombres y cosas, suben, bajan, se alejan, se acercan. Todo es una comedia de distancias.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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'You are dictatorial.' My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
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Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.
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I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
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Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
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Hombres y cosas, suben, bajan, se alejan, se acercan. Todo es una comedia de distancias.
