"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."

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Jim Jarmusch

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Starting Over Quotes

“Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary nature - are sought for by many people, we see no reason for withdrawing our permission.”
“Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!”
“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”
“I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.”
“Canada is the worst polluter in the world right now. There's absolutely no sign on a federal level that there's going to be any alleviation of the polluting that's going on. Even the Parti QuÃ©bÃ©cois in QuÃ©bec, which is historically a party that has been leftist and environmental - they are trying to give $450 million subsidies to polluting enterprises in GaspÃ©. These, to me are my problems.”
“How can we live without the unknown before us?”

Source : René Char, Mary Ann Caws (1992). “Selected Poems of René Char”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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