Jonas Mekas Quotes
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.
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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
