Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I take really good care of myself. I work out a lot and I eat very well.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe, and preach to all the inhabitants, without exception, or limitation. They accordingly went forth in obedience to the command, and the power of God evidently wrought with them.
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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
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It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
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Venice is eternity itself.
