Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The world is always in movement.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
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I'm used to smoking some weed and getting the munchies. This nigga sold me some shit, had me looking at the refrigerator for three hours. I'm just in the kitchen, sitting on the stove, just...sits on stool, blanking staring...I bet you there ain't shit in there, nigga. I bet you...'
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
