Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own.
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.
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The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
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Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.
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El temor de separación es todo lo que une.
