Manuel Puig Quotes

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Manuel Puig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SimpleChildhoodMeWritingExcited

The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

Jerry Hall

LoveGreatMenPeopleBakingYou

What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

Joel Salatin

NatureGodLookingDesignDownSee

I have been through so much.

Shilpa Shinde

ThroughBeenMuch

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Shirley Knight

MeCareerActingThroughRoughPull

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

Rose McIver

AgeGreatBrotherAmazingThink

I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to Downing Street, which didn't strike me as funny. I'd get on the number 15 bus.

Michael Moorcock

FamilyFunnyMeEndRacingUncle

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Mo Ibrahim

TimeLongLong TimeAlwaysRadio

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

Chris Van Hollen

WarSayingKnowSaidUnderstandWho

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Claude Debussy

SingingToo MuchAlwaysOperaMuch

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

FriendshipLoveLightFireBeginning

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

William Gurnall

LightMenJudgeGoBeyondSee

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

Richard Ford

CharacterVoiceThinkWayOutBeen

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