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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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
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Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.
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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.
