Antonio Porchia Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
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Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
