Joseph Brodsky Quotes
People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
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I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
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Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
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People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
