Antonio Porchia Quotes

He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Problem
  • Dark
  • Beauty

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Accept

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Nature
  • Think
  • More

• One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Best

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Known
  • Grave
  • Chief

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Perfect

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Punish
  • Restore
  • Offences

• For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Difference
  • Changed
  • Regularity

• I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

  

  T.R. Reid

• He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.

  

  Antonio Porchia