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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I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
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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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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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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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We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.
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Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.
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If you are in a breakup, you might as well go all the way and spend the summer in Samarkand, with no air-conditioning, learning a language you have no use for. At least it adds some romance to a depressing situation.
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The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.
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People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.
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One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.
