Jim Carroll Quotes
These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I hate competition.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.
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These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.
