Antonio Porchia Quotes
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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.
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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.'
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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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.
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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?
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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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.
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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.
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Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
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I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
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Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.
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As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.
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Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo.
