Leslie Cockburn Quotes
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
-
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
-
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
-
Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
-
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
-
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
-
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
-
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
-
I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
-
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
-
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
-
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
-
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
-
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
-
If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
-
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
-
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
-
I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
-
I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.
-
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
-
I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.
-
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
-
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
-
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
