Jerry Saltz Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Brazil is on my side.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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on tolerance of gays: 'You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.'
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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
