Leslie Cockburn Quotes

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Leslie Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1952

Topics

StoryThinkFollowAbilityGreatest

I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.

Jidenna

TimePastPeopleMeFeelAmerica

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

Joel Edgerton

WorkPathMoneyMeEvilDown

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

Jenny Zhang

TimeSchoolPoetryLongSummerOut

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

Spike Jonze

MoneyCompromiseSomeoneNeverGoing

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

Stipe Miocic

FightingYouKnowFirstBillsPays

I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes.

Trip Lee

GoodShoesBasketballWatchingVery

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

BestWorldHockeyGoalPlayBecause

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

Dominique Dawes

PositivePeopleGoScholarshipMean

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Donald Rumsfeld

OutSomethingGetEasierThan

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

Ashley Judd

LovePeopleMeThinkFalling In Love

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

Wynton Marsalis

LoveAttitudeMePhilosophyLook

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Peter Jennings

WorldThinkImportantIslamSee

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