Manuel Puig Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.
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First and foremost must come the recognition and the realization that education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country. And in advanced countries it is not uncommon for the state to spend as much as 25 per cent of their revenue on education.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
