Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Act because you love to act.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
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For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.
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Cada vez que me despierto, comprendo que es fácil ser nada.
