Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
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I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
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I'm a takeout kind of girl. Whole Foods prepares most of my meals.
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
