"Most of the movies I saw growing up……" — Manuel Puig
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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63 Quotes by Manuel Puig
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He,…
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing…
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend…
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad…
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration…
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a…
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can…
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More Consumption Quotes
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Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat…
— Neal Barnard
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire…
— Joseph Beuys
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption…
— David R. Brower
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking.…
— Jerry Brown
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
— Jimmy Carter
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political…
— Noam Chomsky
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities…
— Sherwood Boehlert
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the…
— Doug Larson
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