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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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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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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As far as we're concerned, we all have opinions on different things, but just because you're in a group and you can broadcast them doesn't mean your opinion is right.
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
