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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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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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
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Venice is eternity itself.
