Quotes by Argentinian/Argentina authors (page 3)

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied"

Manuel Puig, Author

"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I would very much like to become a best-selling author"

Manuel Puig, Author

"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, Author

"As a rule, one should never place form over content"

Manuel Puig, Author

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"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, Author

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Writers are not meant for action"

Manuel Puig, Author

"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My pleasure was to copy, not to create"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life"

Manuel Puig, Author

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"We have a responsibility to protect the Earth for future generations. The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it, we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Do you want to fast this Lent? Fast from hurting words and say kind words. Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude"

Pope Francis, Pope

"True love is both loving and letting oneself be loved. It is harder to let ourselves be loved than it is to love"

Pope Francis, Pope

"It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life"

Pope Francis, Pope

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace"

Pope Francis, Pope

"The name of God is mercy"

Pope Francis, Pope

"The church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel"

Pope Francis, Pope

"The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty"

Pope Francis, Pope

"A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him." She's like "oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

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Quotes by Argentinian authors