Jack Kerouac Quotes
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
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I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has primarily to do with distractions … Women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
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When we realize that we can see life we gradually give up the things that stand in the way of our complete awareness. As we paint we move along step by step. We realize that we are guided in our work by awareness of life.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
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I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think anyone loves the game more than me.
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Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
