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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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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No two wars are identical.
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You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.
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The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.
