Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
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I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.
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One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
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Literature invents its own rules.
