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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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
