Joseph Brodsky Quotes
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
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India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
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'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
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When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
