Allen Ginsberg Quotes
The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a character actor.
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Broadway is really my life.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
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Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)
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All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
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The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.
