Manuel Puig Quotes

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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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A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.

Joe Grant

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If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

Jillian Michaels

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Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.'

Michael Cimino

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People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

Rosa Salazar

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One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.

Mike Pompeo

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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

Johnny Mathis

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Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Bryan Adams

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While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Alice Munro

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I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

Wyatt Cenac

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