Manuel Puig Quotes
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.
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If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.
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I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation coming into the world - onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.
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When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
