Chuck Brodsky Quotes
'Cause we are each other's angels. And we meet when it is time. We keep each other going. And we show each other signs.
Quotes to Explore
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
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What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.
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My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.
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'Cause we are each other's angels. And we meet when it is time. We keep each other going. And we show each other signs.
