Joseph Brodsky Quotes
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
Joseph Brodsky
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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.
Hal Holbrook
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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.
Vern Buchanan
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
Taylor Sheridan
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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.
Dan Hill
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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.
L.A. Reid
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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.
Taylor Swift
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In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
Ken Salazar
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
Patricia Riggen
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When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.
Tara Brach
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They still need to keep working at getting people to recognize it as an artsy place. There's the potential for Windward, but it's going to take some of the big landowner merchants realizing what we realize: that art pays for itself.
Don Johnson
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Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.
T. Allen Lawson
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
Joseph Brodsky
