Manuel Puig Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
