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 could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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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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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
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For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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Men perish but principles live.
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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.
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Venice is eternity itself.
