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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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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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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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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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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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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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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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
