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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Loss Remember Inevitable Creation

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.

Immigration Political Congress Out

All the writers on our show went in and got in the bed and took a picture in Cher's bed, even though she was never in it.

Picture Bed Never She Got Show

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

Robert Pattinson

Money Doing Week Earning Started

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Leadership Today Pressure More Act

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Statement Message Movie Really

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

You Ridiculous Right Years Track

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

Work Good Beginning Thought Camera

DC is good all round. He pushes the pace, makes you think what you're doing, makes you uncomfortable.

Good Think Doing Uncomfortable You

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.

Doing Will Possible Talk Everything

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.

Hope Myself Think Push You Find

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

People Me Song Feel Go Kind

When you're undercover you try to stay as true to your identity as you are. You know who you are, and you know how you normally function. If you try to put on a pretense, such as assuming a fake voice, you have to put on that fake voice all of the time. And you can't afford to slip out of it. It's too dangerous.

Time Identity Voice Fake You Know

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