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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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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I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
