Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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Our capacity to compete in a knowledge-based economy is going to depend on our ability to offer the opportunity of college success to every student who's willing to work to achieve it.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
