Joseph Brodsky Quotes
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.
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My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.
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There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.
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The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
