Jonas Mekas Quotes
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.
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Ἡ δέ τοι κύκνου δίκηντὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόονκεῖται † φιλήτως τοῦδ'.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
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I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
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You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.
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I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.
