Yasiel Puig Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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I'm an honest hoe, and all my hoes is honest.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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“I want to help the Dodgers win and fight the battle.”
