Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and … - Anne Waldman

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

Anne Waldman

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

Spiritual, Crazy, Ignorance, Incredible, Movies, Sentimentality

Same Author Quotes

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

Mean, Skillful, Technology, Use

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

Cell, Cells, Helicopter, Phone, Phones, Real

The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.

Brokenness, Dark, Military, Side, War

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

Actualization, Deep, Mind, Mystery, Reading

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

Canyon, Cut, Cutting, Grand, People, Upset