Antonio Porchia Quotes
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.
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The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.
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I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
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Quise alcanzar lo derecho por sendas derechas. Y así comencé a vivir equivocado.
