I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.
The free market and regulatory reforms enacted by a Republican-led Congress and President Trump have resulted in a blue-collar recovery, breathing life and jobs into working-class communities that Democrats had written off as expendable collateral damage in the inevitable globalization plans of American and global elites.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.
I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.
I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more women for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is. I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn't they?
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
