Jim Carroll Quotes

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

Jim Carroll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

Steve Harvey

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I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Stephen Curry

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Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

Subcomandante Marcos

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If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

Stewart O'Nan

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

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I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.

Jason Blum

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I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

Chris Rock

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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

Chris Rock

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Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that's how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There's years of history in every interaction.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

Anthony Doerr

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If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Peter Shilton

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