Jack Kerouac Quotes
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
