Manuel Puig Quotes

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

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• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Why
  • Often
  • Flaws

• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Information
  • Search
  • New

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Forever

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Game
  • Night
  • Day

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Game
  • Alone
  • Thought

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Gratitude
  • Conviction
  • Opponent

• TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

  

  Alan Bradley
  • Great
  • Together

• Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

  

  John Olver

• Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Free
  • Doubt

• Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Men
  • Failure

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone