Antonio Porchia Quotes
El dolor está arriba, no abajo. Y todos creen que el dolor está abajo. Y todos quieren subir.Antonio Porchia
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
Park Chan-wook -
Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
T. J. Miller -
Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
Felice Picano -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
Dakota Fanning -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
Ian Anderson -
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro -
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
Patrick deWitt
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
It has seemed to me that our search for this mysterious factor of difference must lead to the conclusion that it was not a single factor but the united workings of at least three forces, that brought about the wide difference.
Calvin Coolidge -
I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Benazir Bhutto -
Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.
Khaled Hosseini -
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.
Claude Debussy -
To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.
Kamal Haasan
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I went to school at Juilliard, and most of our training there is the classics, and as much as I thrive in contemporary, weird, experimental work, I really am excited about finding a pioneer woman or something from a different era that I could really sink my teeth into.
Gayle Rankin -
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
Kenneth Grahame -
There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.
Charles F. Haanel -
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
Billie Jean King -
El dolor está arriba, no abajo. Y todos creen que el dolor está abajo. Y todos quieren subir.
Antonio Porchia