Jonas Mekas Quotes
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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I'll run your brain around the block to jog your fucking memory.
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When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.
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I live a normal lifestyle, but I try to make healthy decisions while doing it.
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It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.
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Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.