Manuel Puig Quotes
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a Buddhist.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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I applied to Yale, and I got in.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
