Manuel Puig Quotes
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
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I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
