Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
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I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
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From what I awaited, came my habit of waiting.
