Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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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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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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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 U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.
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What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.
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If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
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El temor de separación es todo lo que une.
