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Jon Landau Quotes

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Jon Landau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 14, 1947

Topics

Freedom Culture Youth Late Never

If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!

Jessica Chastain

Job I Am Me Think Someone Play

In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.

John Harsanyi

Time Research Game Australia Unknown

A lot of people can raise money.

Andrew Mason

Money People Raise Lot

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Jeff Bridges

Childhood Ending America Acting Want

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects.

Steve James

Together People Bond You Kind Way

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Roger Ebert

Winter Goals Team Listening Night

As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Rumer Willis

Parents People You Get Older Your

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Bruce Johnston

Trying Top Ourselves Record Each

It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.

Arca

Nature Music Yourself Dating Deep

I think every role you do prepares you for the next one. Of course, 'Nashville' has been, and will continue to be, a huge learning experience for me as an actor. It's something that I grew a lot doing.

Aubrey Peeples

Learning Experience Me Think Doing

I was a born singer.

Peng Liyuan

Born Singer

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

Sherman Alexie

Women Power Woman Man Strong Think