"I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'"

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Source : "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

Jonas Mekas

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“You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.”

Source : Brian Weiss (2008). “Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love”, p.51, Hachette UK
“At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.”
“Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.”

Source : "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.
“Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.”

Source : Susan Patron, Matt Phelan (2009). “Lucky Breaks”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.”
“One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.”
“I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.”
“Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.”

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