Antonio Porchia Quotes
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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.
J. August Richards -
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
Laura Prepon -
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.
Warren G. Harding -
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz -
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
Irrfan Khan -
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.
Rachel Cusk
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel -
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.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
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.
Laura Linney -
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.
Jack Ma -
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
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.
Barry Schwartz
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Victoria Pratt -
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.
Valerie June -
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.
Valerie Plame -
Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
Immanuel Kant -
Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
Dana Torres -
The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
Mem Fox -
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
Shunryu Suzuki -
I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
Mandy Moore -
If I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think that smoking weed is that big a deal.
Chloe Madeley -
Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
Antonio Porchia