Manuel Puig Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
