Jonathan Galassi Quotes

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Jonathan Galassi

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ArtPoetryThinkWorryProblemWhy

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

Joey Fatone

LiveMeHairImportantHeadPretty

I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.

Joel Kinnaman

ChameleonLikeAccentBit

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Simon Travaglia

RulesKnowingTwoRememberingThings

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

Trent Reznor

FightSongYouSometimesWorst

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Lois Lowry

MeShowing UpWantOutUpFiction

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

Doug Liman

BrotherMeDoubleStillOlderTook

The history of colonisation cannot disappear.

Claire Denis

HistoryDisappearCannot

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything. It didn't matter what it was - it was just 'no.'

Ari Graynor

TelevisionSaidWantMatterHard

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Alison Bechdel

LoveComicsThemAutobiographical

I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft a little bit and hone it as much as possible.

Synyster Gates

HateYouPossibleCraftLittleMyth

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

CommunityResponsibilityDemocracy

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

Paul Watson

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