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Manuel Puig

"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

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"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."

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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

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"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans."

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"It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it."

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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"People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it."

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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
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"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
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"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
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