Manuel Puig Quotes
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
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But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
