Antonio Porchia Quotes
Lo antes que yo y lo después que yo casi se han unido, casi son uno solo, casi se han quedado sin yo.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.
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The act of exercising at 6 A.M. really helped me. It made me not dread the workout part of my day all day long. Also, when I went to have a tiny cheat, I would really think back to how hard I worked and thought, 'It is not worth going to boot camp an extra week over one peanut butter cup.'
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I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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E tu che se' costì, anima viva,pàrtiti da cotesti che son morti.
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Lo antes que yo y lo después que yo casi se han unido, casi son uno solo, casi se han quedado sin yo.
