Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.
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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
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I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.
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Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.
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There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
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Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
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Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.
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I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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I think it is definitely right to listen to the Party and follow up government's instructions.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
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Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
