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Joseph Monninger Quotes

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Joseph Monninger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 28, 1953

Topics

Home Island Off Cape Coast Once

They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true.

Music Time Me Think True See

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Music Beautiful Ugly Kind Something

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.

Day School Effort Doing Acting Kind

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Work Love Speak Learn You Loving

I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

Anna Maxwell Martin

Great You Look Vanity Playing Where

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

Life Work Confidence Faith Best You

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

Me Something Because Make Movie

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Love Patience Wisdom Courage Grace

My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture.

Picture Political Interesting You

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Breyten Breytenbach

Enemy Dancing Breath Steps Counting

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Thought Weird Wrong Want Why Paint

There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.

Good Music Me Writing Clever Stream

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