Manuel Puig Quotes
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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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 promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
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One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
