Allen Ginsberg Quotes
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
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When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
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I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.
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Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.
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Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
