Manuel Puig Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
-
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
-
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
-
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
-
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
-
Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
-
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
-
Most men are fragile.
-
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
-
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
-
China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
-
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
-
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
-
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-
Everything I say is true.
-
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
-
Theater has always been terrifying to me.
-
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
-
I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
-
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
-
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
