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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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
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Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
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I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
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Venice is eternity itself.
