Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
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Si yo fuera quien se conduce a sí mismo, no iría por la senda que conduce a morir.
