Manuel Puig Quotes
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
