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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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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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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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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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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I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
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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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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
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I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.
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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.
