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Quote by Mark Duplass

“I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.”

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Mark Duplass is an accomplished American film director, born on December 7, 1976. His work is renowned for its unique narrative style and profound emotional expression, resonating with audiences worldwide. more

“In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.”

Knows Years Persons Moments School Individual Mouths Russia Factories Diverse Bureaucracy Old You Uniformity

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.”

Ifs I Can Miserable

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.”

Want Writing Language Democracy Martyr Novelty

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.”

Knows Men Should Firsts Two Lying Culture Three Given Term Race Honest Oneself Coward Ambitious Creeds Three Things Honest Man Ambitious Man

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.”

Political Grew Conversation Grew Up Lows Discourse Brows Milieu Political Discourse

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.”

I Can States Government Objects Serious Jokes Consideration

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.”

Nice Sequels

Author:Joel Silver

“I don't have principles. I have nerves.”

Principles Nerves

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.”

Wells Matter America Literature Minutes Morality Conversation Achievement Ethics Consequence Boring Holocaust What Matters Discourse Predictable Unimportant Degenerates

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.”

Opportunity Civilization West Triumph

Author:Joseph Brodsky

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