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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'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
