Manuel Puig Quotes
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
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If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.
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On my grandmother's chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.
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My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
