Jonas Mekas Quotes

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

Jonas Mekas

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  • Author Profession: director
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  • Birth: December 24, 1922

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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

John Burroughs

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I chose John Carroll Lynch as my SAG name when I was 19 years old. I was working in D.C., and I got my SAG card by doing a first aid film for the Red Cross called 'Bleeding Control'. They had a union contract.

John Carroll Lynch

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People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.

Melvyn Bragg

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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Robert Harris

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If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

Ann Cotton

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I eat a lot of kale, and I drink about half a gallon to a gallon of water a day.

John Salley

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I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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I'm not allowed to buy advertising for my book '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' on Facebook because, according to their representative, they have received complaints about the word 'hate' in my book title.

Mike Gallagher

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

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It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

China Mieville

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I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

Bruce Robinson

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