Jim Carroll Quotes

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

Jim Carroll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfMeVoiceRock And RollRock

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

Andy Cohen

LifeStruggleI AmPeopleMy Life

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

Michael Bacon

PeopleKindWayWriteUpSomething

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

GreatTimeMoneyTrainingEffort

Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.

Torrey Smith

ChangeMyselfSchoolI AmPeople

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

Tracee Ellis Ross

PowerResponsibilityExperienceHuman

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

Ruth Bradley

BadNeverFacesMustGetThose

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

Rupert Murdoch

BestPossibleTransparentJustFelt

If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn't have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.

Mo Farah

SchoolParentsMake A DifferenceLook

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

Jonathan Maberry

MeRoadAdviceBadRulesNew

I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!

Sylvia Sidney

CountryKnowWholeMillionEven

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.

Pedro Almodovar

CommunicationEffortPeopleMoving

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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