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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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.
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It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.
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I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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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.
