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Jim Carroll Quotes

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1949 - September 11, 2009

Topics

Style People Trying Easy Possible

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Peace Fantasy Never Parade Little

I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

Community People Feel Know Kind Up

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

Money Experience Capitalism American

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

Me Mom Start Hometown Los Angeles

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

Make A Difference Difference Room

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Teacher Best Strategy Know Teachers

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

Great Job Greed Enough Living Him

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

Children Support Me Speak Rock Mama

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Me Interesting Hollywood Celebrity

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

Think Artist Lose Place Sometimes

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Balance Confused Aim Possible Whole

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

Education Car Parents Me Back Pay

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