Antonio Porchia Quotes

Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo.

Antonio Porchia

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Find

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty
  • Memory

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Nothing
  • Being
  • Naked

• My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Faith

• People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Thinking
  • War

• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Same

• Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Lies
  • Facts

• No agency is better than its account executives.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Better
  • Account
  • Agency

• KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Career
  • Cool
  • Rap

• I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

  

  Belle Boyd
  • Important
  • Enemy

• We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Negotiable
  • Steady hands

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo.

  

  Antonio Porchia