Jonas Mekas Quotes

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Jonas Mekas

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

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I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

John Bonham

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Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.

Robert Kennedy

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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Jeffery Deaver

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Chanel is my ultimate weakness.

Rita Ora

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It takes minutes to play, but 'Unmanned' sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who's tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.

Rob Manuel

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When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

Matt Besser

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My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.

DJ Khaled

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Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

Dexter Holland

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Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Chuck Mangione

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An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

Brad Goreski

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The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

William Hurt

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