Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.
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Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.
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The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to westCheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
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It's extraordinary what that song has been used for - I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.
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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.
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Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.
