Antonio Porchia Quotes
En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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And that's the way it is.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I never starved myself.
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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
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We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.
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I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
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What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
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En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
