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“It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.”

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Bill Condon

Bill Condon, born on October 22, 1955, is an American screenwriter whose work spans across film, television, and theater. Known for his humorous and profound narrative style, he has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry. more

“I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Things are symbols of themselves.”

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Book:The Human Street: Photographs

Source: The Human Street: Photographs

“It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

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