Manuel Puig Quotes

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Manuel Puig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: argentinian
  • Birth: December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990

Topics

MeRealityAmericanResultIntention

When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.

Joanne Liu

WorkMeBookPhysicianAfghanistan

I wouldn't say you can engineer viral. But there is viral content that comes from dense communities.

John Cabrera

YouSayContentEngineerViral

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

Jennifer Coolidge

JobMomEverythingChangedHappened

I run a number of different brain banks.

Ann McKee

FootballMeImpossibleRiskPlaying

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

Robby Gordon

FunHave FunImmaturePrettyJust

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Robert A. Heinlein

MeCivilizationPolitenessSine

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Ballard

FriendBestOceanBest FriendKid

I wouldn't eat a 1,000-calorie bowl of spaghetti for dinner, but I've always loved pasta and think it's a good addition to any meal and a great base for pretty much any vegetable. It's also great when I have a nervous stomach before race day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

GoodGreatDayDinnerThinkLoved

There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven.

Miriam Toews

LifeMyselfBelieveThinkChurch

I am the most loyal player money can buy.

Don Sutton

MoneyI AmBuyLoyalPlayerMost

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

William Morris

LifeArtCompetitionDieLongGo

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Philip Pullman

MeaningEverythingOnlyReadCould

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