Jonas Mekas Quotes
In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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We are here to make another world.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.
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On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.
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She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.
