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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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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Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.
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Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
