Anne Waldman Quotes
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.
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It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
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When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.
