Hanoi Hannah Quotes
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Quotes to Explore
-
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
-
What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
-
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
-
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
-
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
-
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
-
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
-
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
-
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
-
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
-
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
-
I had a very modest upbringing.
-
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
-
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
-
I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
-
No one man is superior to the game.
-
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
-
I love decompressing with friends. Sometimes when a tour is long, I'll fly friends over for the last part of the tour. I love to bring family with me, and spending time with them and my family is really the way to decompress.
-
Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.
-
The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.
-
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
