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 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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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.
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My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
