Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
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Call me irresponsibleYes, I'm unreliableBut it's undeniably trueThat I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
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We need to hack up the person responsible for this bad connection....hack him up in front of his children. We need to cut off his face and wear it and go on a really tightly budgeted shopping spree in stores that don't exist yet.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
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“I was off my face on those painkillers,It was very dangerous. I’ll walk with a limp for the rest of my life, and if you’re as vain as I am that’s hard! But I know now I’m very lucky to be a functioning human being.
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
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I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.
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Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
