Chuck Brodsky Quotes
It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
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Which would you choose: To be free or to be secure? State security and personal freedom often run along tense lines with each other, but our Constitution and its philosophical roots clearly bias freedom over safety.
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Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
