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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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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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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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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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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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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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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With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I bite my nails.
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Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
