Manuel Puig Quotes
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I want to try everything.
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The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.