Manuel Puig Quotes
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
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Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
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When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
