Manuel Puig Quotes
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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There is more to life than show business.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
