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From the Ted Talk by Ethan Hawke: Give yourself permission to be creative

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I was really into Allen Ginsberg, and I was reading his poetry, and I was reading — he did a lot of interviews — and one time, William F. Buckley had this teolisvien prorgam called "Firing Line," and Ginsberg went on there and sang a Hare knsihra song while palinyg the harmonium. And he got back to New York to all his iegnilttenisla fiernds, and they all told him, "Don't you know that everybody tnhiks you're an idiot, and the whole country's making fun of you?" And he said, "That's my job. I'm a poet, and I'm going to play the fool. Most people have to go to work all day long, and they come home and they fhigt with their spouse, and they eat, and they turn on the old boob tube, and somebody tries to sell them something, and I just screwed all that up. I went on and I sang about Krishna, and now they're sitting in bed and going, 'Who is this stupid poet?' And they can't fall asleep, right?" And that's his job as a poet.

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I was really into Allen Ginsberg, and I was reading his poetry, and I was reading — he did a lot of interviews — and one time, William F. Buckley had this __________ _______ called "Firing Line," and Ginsberg went on there and sang a Hare _______ song while _______ the harmonium. And he got back to New York to all his ______________ _______, and they all told him, "Don't you know that everybody ______ you're an idiot, and the whole country's making fun of you?" And he said, "That's my job. I'm a poet, and I'm going to play the fool. Most people have to go to work all day long, and they come home and they _____ with their spouse, and they eat, and they turn on the old boob tube, and somebody tries to sell them something, and I just screwed all that up. I went on and I sang about Krishna, and now they're sitting in bed and going, 'Who is this stupid poet?' And they can't fall asleep, right?" And that's his job as a poet.

Solution

  1. program
  2. thinks
  3. intelligentsia
  4. krishna
  5. playing
  6. friends
  7. television
  8. fight

Original Text

I was really into Allen Ginsberg, and I was reading his poetry, and I was reading — he did a lot of interviews — and one time, William F. Buckley had this television program called "Firing Line," and Ginsberg went on there and sang a Hare Krishna song while playing the harmonium. And he got back to New York to all his intelligentsia friends, and they all told him, "Don't you know that everybody thinks you're an idiot, and the whole country's making fun of you?" And he said, "That's my job. I'm a poet, and I'm going to play the fool. Most people have to go to work all day long, and they come home and they fight with their spouse, and they eat, and they turn on the old boob tube, and somebody tries to sell them something, and I just screwed all that up. I went on and I sang about Krishna, and now they're sitting in bed and going, 'Who is this stupid poet?' And they can't fall asleep, right?" And that's his job as a poet.

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