Manuel Puig Quotes
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.Manuel Puig
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur -
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Adam McKay -
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
Callie Khouri -
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
Eddie Campbell -
When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
Katee Sackhoff
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra -
I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
Tahar Rahim -
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
Bear Grylls
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
Vanessa Bayer -
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
Lady Gaga -
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
Kat Graham -
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand -
I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan -
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig