Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable - almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority.
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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
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I'm dying to go to India.
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Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content.
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My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.
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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
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I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
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I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
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I never have a bad night, bad day, bad moment.
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El niño muestra su juguete, el hombre lo esconde.
