Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
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The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
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Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
