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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

Politics Morals Bad Make

I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.

Better Feel Doing Survival Bad Done

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Family Heart Time Leg Give My Time

I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

John Lanchester

Time You Back Down Wrong Horror

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

Life Thinking You Emotions Living

You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.

Believe Strong You Skills Sometimes

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Camera My Own Little Own Niche

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Time Same Fail Keep Hardest Pushing

I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.

Life Learning Darkness Travel I Am

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

People World Pride Lift Greatest

Scott Walker is going to tell people the truth - not with bombastic and self-congratulatory language, but in that endearing Midwestern way.

Anthony Scaramucci

Truth People Language Way Tell

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

Job Opportunities Driving You Kind

I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.

Great I Can See Even

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