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 -
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher
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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 -
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
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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 -
Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
Laura Mvula
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
Sam Sheppard -
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
Marilyn Hacker -
The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.
Stephen Fry -
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
J. B. Pritzker -
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins -
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