"New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement."

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Source : Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

Zelda Popkin

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“When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“I try to get a degree of realism in my music.”
“Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.”
“Everything you do in war is a crime in peace”
“That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.”
“We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.”
“I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?”
“Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”

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