Joseph Brodsky Quotes
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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I'm a proud Welshman.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
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As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.
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From Lee: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence ; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish-not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.
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The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
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I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
