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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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 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 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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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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In the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.
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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.
