Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
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I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
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Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
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Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
