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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When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
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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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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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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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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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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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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
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I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
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It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
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We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.
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Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
