Allen Ginsberg Quotes

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• I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Actor

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Kid
  • Disney
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Kind
  • Model
  • Look

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• 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.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• 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.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Help

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Playing

• One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Up
  • Age
  • Giving

• The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

  

  Jess Walter

• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

  

  Evan Ingersoll
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Chicago

• Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

  

  John Clute
  • Science

• The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Power
  • War
  • Magic