Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.
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I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.
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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.
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I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
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This is a great success. We thank the community for its support and want to let them know our recruiting efforts are paying off.
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In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.
