Nina Menkes Quotes
I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I can paint in jail.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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The plant laboratories in which this wonderful and vitally essential transformation is effected are chiefly located in the leaf of the plant... the thoughtful person must regard this structure-the most ordinary green leaf of tree or shrub or vine or the tiniest blade of grass-as in some respects the most wonderful thing in the world.
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In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.
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When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.
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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
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If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
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I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
