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Alberto Manguel Quotes

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Alberto Manguel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: argentinian
Birth: March 13, 1948

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Time Art Writing Saying Rules Way

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

Maya Lin

Me Growing Up Thought White Growing

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Max Baucus

Respect Me Judge Healthy Rights He

One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.

Tony Ross

Children You Surrounded Got Some

It is all about playing a challenging role, and whether a film is a commercial one or not does not really matter.

Arfi Lamba

Matter Playing Film Role Commercial

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Anthony Mackie

Good You Want Good Movie Twilight

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Wolfgang Puck

Cooking Painting Colors Writing Song

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

Best Me Story Short Feel Long

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

William Hurt

Experience Creativity Creative Me Go

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Scott Coker

Politics Place Impression Arts Any

Customers want to talk to other customers.

Mark V. Hurd

Want Talk Customers Other

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Kerry King

Moment Cool Media Dressed Sometimes

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

Hozier

Music Time Growing Up Growing Group