Pura Quotes

#1. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Werner Herzog

#2. She blew out of the Terrace sometime before Christmas to points unknown. The Gujarati guy told me when I ran into him at the Pathmark. He was still pissed because Pura had stiffed him almost two months' rent.
Last time I ever rent to one of you people.
Amen, I said.

Junot Diaz

#3. I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

Junot Diaz

#4. I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

Junot Diaz

#5. I'm gay," I said, not sure how else to say it.
"You're fifteen," she said. "You can't be gay.

Michael Thomas Ford

#6. Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come through or die.

Murray Pura

#7. Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

Julie B. Beck

#8. She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.

Lori Copeland

#9. When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Don Ward

#10. If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

Murray Pura

#11. There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.

Don Hertzfeldt