Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been … - Manuel Puig

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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil. I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

Manuel Puig

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing.

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