Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
Dan Chaon -
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
Patrick Kane -
I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Magic Johnson -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable -
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
Rami Malek
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
Ram Charan -
I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
Xavier Dolan -
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence -
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
Jack Falahee
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez -
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca -
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino -
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton -
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
Bat for Lashes
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I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.
Adrian Tomine -
I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
Bebe Rexha -
It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
Christo -
I paused, watching the swallows; for they seemed to me the symbol, in their swift, sure curvetting, all daring and balance and surprise, of the delicate poise and motion of Art, that visits no two men alike, in a world where no two things of all the things there be, are quite the same.
John Galsworthy -
It was evident that he revived by fits and starts. He would suddenly come to himself from actual delirium for a few minutes; he would remember and talk with complete consciousness, chiefly in disconnected phrases which he had perhaps thought out and learnt by heart in the long weary hours of his illness, in his bed, in sleepless solitude.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Life has a great deal up its sleeve.
Joseph Brodsky