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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Manuel Puig
Great
Telling
About
French
Sort
Occupation
Always
Were
German
Wondered
Authors
Roman
Interested
Nouveau
Novel
Why
Thing
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
Manuel Puig
Somebody
Own
Difficulty
Case
My Own
Write
Concentrating
Reader
Limitations
Being
Which
Certain
Viewer
Who
Film
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig
Become
Would
Like
Very
Author
Much
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig
Dreams
Reality
Cinema
Think
Our
Our Dreams
Than
Closer
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
Me
Writing
Simple
Finished
Films
Saw
Excited
Like
Because
Were
Lot
Childhood
Movie
Scripts
Them
Copies
Started
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
Manuel Puig
Work
Character
Problem
Try
Locate
All My Work
Genesis
Understand
Then
Special
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
Manuel Puig
Somebody
Every
Something
Written
Convince
Novels
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig
Say
About
Name
Names
Rock
Rock And Roll
Least
Roll
Suspicious
Want
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
Manuel Puig
Humor
Think
Universe
Part
Forced
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig
Me
Decision
Side
Literature
Choose
Chose
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
Work
Nature
Long
Realistic
Films
Synthetic
Allegory
Developed
Terms
Story
Fantasy
Working
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
Immigration
Resolving
Way
States
Papers
Stay
New
Because
Issue
Began
York
New York
Order
Working
Teaching
United
United States
Needed
University
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.
Manuel Puig
Objective
Clear
Like
Makes
First-Person
Narrator
Camera
Subjective
Very
Hitchcock
Literature
Us
Third
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
Free
Imagination
Someone
Writes
Unconscious
Essential
Order
Fiction
Who
Activate
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Manuel Puig
Work
Time
Me
Book
Has-Been
Never
Most
Been
Reviews
Them
Helped
Waste
Waste Of Time
Interpretations
As a rule, one should never place form over content.
Manuel Puig
Rule
Never
Over
Content
Form
Place
Should
Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow.
Mauricio Macri
Good
Business
Change
Fight
Opportunity
Care
Will
Argentina
Environment
Taking
Climate
Climate Change
Doing
Doing Good
Continue
Taxes
Paying
Shows
Grow
Argentina is ready to take its place. Its a big country with a lot of talent.
Mauricio Macri
Country
Big
Argentina
Take
Talent
Ready
Lot
Place
Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.
Mauricio Macri
Today
Finance
World
Impossible
Country
Important
Energy
Only
Construct
Argentina
Take
Trucks
Roads
Global
Huge
Trains
Depends
Decided
Place
Landscape
Companies
Ports
Need
All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
Mauricio Macri
Corruption
Country
Down
Took
Lies
Beaten
Over
Transitions
Hard
The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina.
Mauricio Macri
Conflict
World
Siege
Enthusiastic
About
Argentina
Israeli suffering has to be understood.
Mauricio Macri
Suffering
Understood
Israeli
I'm a great singer.
Mauricio Macri
Great
Singer
Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?
Mauricio Macri
Dancing
Way
Like
Another
Another Way
Communicating
I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
Mauricio Macri
Life
My Life
Luck
Choose
The world is a mess.
Mauricio Macri
World
Mess
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