Jonas Mekas Quotes
I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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Was the anticipation worse than the event itself?
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.
