David Russell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
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I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
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Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.
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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
