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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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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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.
