After our first full year of SFR Talk, we can safely say that the people of northern New Mexico always have something interesting to say for themselves. Here we present selected highlights from last year's interviews with public and private citizens. We look forward to another 12 months of Q&As and we welcome and encourage you to send us suggestions of interesting people we should talk to (yes, it can be yourself) from all walks of life.
"Give the kids something to do. There's a lot of skateboarders here; why not get some companies around here to come together and build a nice big ramp? Or graffiti, I've seen some great graffiti, why not give the kids a place to do graffiti? Anything to keep kids off the streets. And if there's anyone out there that has an idea and needs a sponsor, shit, I'll help 'em…"
-Martial artist, Rockfest promoter James Martinez
***image17***"I'm definitely the bad kid of the Senate. I wasn't well-liked coming in and my mistakes mean people were going to dislike me even more."
-State Sen. John Grubesic, D-Santa Fe
***image16***"I have very visibly lived through a number of defining periods of American history and defining cultural changes, and because I've been visible people associate those events and changes with me and, as a result, having lived through those, I can peel back the skin from my own experiences and shed new light on them."
-Jane Fonda
***image14***"Well, I have a reputation of being controversial and I definitely haven't done anything controversial. I stand up for what I believe is right."
-Santa Fe High School Basketball Coach Lenny Roybal
***image12***"So in the Westerns, I'll end up often on the bad guy side of things in the old equation of dark equals bad and white equals good."
-Nicholas Ballas
***image13***"It's pornography if it's explicit and it shows genitals. It's erotica if it doesn't show genitals. And we show explicit everything. That's pornography and that's what I do."
-Nan Kinney
***image10***"Every generation feels like their generation is unique. There will always be disasters. What we're seeing now is that when there is a disaster, the populations are so much greater than they were 100, 200 years ago, you have a huger life loss."
-Steven Bond, director of Emergency Services, Santa Fe Red Cross
"There are some physical differences between men's and women's brains. Women have more nerve fibers called the corpus callosum, which combines the two hemispheres of the brain. The argument has been that maybe that's why women think more globally, are more intuitive and use both sides of the brain."
-Dr. Mary Cummings, social sciences chairwoman, College of Santa Fe
***image15***"If there was an objective, blind taste test, there's no comparison. We don't even know yet what brand of hot dogs Charlie sells."
-Chicago Dog owner Ken Jennings
"You're a human being. If someone told you they don't get scared they're not telling the truth. But it's all in your head. It's all a confidence thing."
-Kentucky Derby winner Mike Smith
***image11***"The point is the activists happen to be in the mainstream of opinion. That's hopeful because it means there are ways to overcome what's going on now by creating a more democratic society."
-Noam Chomsky
***image9***"Since I'm an empty-headed façade, there's plenty of room for that fame to fit into."
-Zozobra
