"As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Ali Liebegott

#Grateful Quotes #Poet Quotes #Filmmaker Quotes

“How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”

Source : Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press
“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”
“Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.”
“Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.”
“I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.”
“Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.”
“Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.”
“I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When you press a key on the harpsichord, the pluck of the string gives a slight resistance similar to the feel of depressing a key on a tracker organ. Also, harpsichordists and organists use much less wrist and body motion than pianists, and we do not need the upper body muscles required by pianists.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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