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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When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
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I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
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I like his strength, I like his gamesmanship. If he gets a shoulder on anyone it usually disrupts their path and that's not always the case at the running back position. So I like the power that he brings to the table.
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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
