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Manuel Puig Quotes

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Manuel Puig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great Why Always Interested Roman

Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.

Jessica Williams

Busy You Independent Way Never Been

My dad was a stickler for teaching me the pratfall. There is something magical about taking a good fall, and when it works, when you get that laugh, there's no better feeling in the world.

Jerry Lewis

Good Me World Better Laugh You

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

John Barrasso

Work Today Time Doctor Care Better

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Joel Edgerton

Step Tough Wilderness Moments You

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

John Mahoney

Character Children Growing Up Doing

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

Robert J. Shiller

Spiritual Economics Engineering Judge

I have two parents who are brilliant storytellers. The art of developing a story and nurturing a story was present in my household from the day I was born.

Robert Kurson

Art Day Parents Story Present Born

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

Stephen Graham Jones

Film Genre Neat Self-Contained

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Robert Delaunay

World Movement Idea Vital

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

Marriage Myself Government Husband

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

Mike Wilson

Fun Go Need Company Being Go Away

Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

Mireille Guiliano

Life Mother Money Quality Friends