David Russell Quotes
I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.
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...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
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It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
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I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
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I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
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I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
