Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.
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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
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You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
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To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
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Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
