Joseph Brodsky Quotes
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
Joseph Brodsky
Quotes to Explore
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band
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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.
Rachael Harris
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler
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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.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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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.
Ed O'Neill
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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.
Kate Flannery
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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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.
Sammy Hagar
Chickenfoot
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
Haile Gebrselassie
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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.
Lane Evans
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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.
Kapil Dev
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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.'
C. S. Lewis
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
P. G. Wodehouse
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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!
H. P. Lovecraft
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
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Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
Agnes Martin
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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
Matt Lauer
