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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• 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!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Long
  • You
  • Study

• That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Problem
  • Focus
  • Bored

• I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Start

• Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Work
  • Children
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • Disrespect

• 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.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Know
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Long
  • Art
  • Through

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Car
  • Nose

• '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.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Experience
  • Alone

• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Words

• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • May
  • Book

• It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Done
  • Past
  • Selfish

• I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Challenge

• I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Fighting
  • Pride
  • Littles

• Hombres y cosas, suben, bajan, se alejan, se acercan. Todo es una comedia de distancias.

  

  Antonio Porchia