Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
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The more games I play, the more I feel comfortable.
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I don't trust what this life has given me.
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Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well.
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Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
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I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.
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There are times I try to look older. And then there are times I look too young.
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When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
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It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
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I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
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I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Okay, so maybe you are the world’s authority on the art of making butter sculptures of dead presidents’ heads, but if you want to sell a book on the subject you’ll have to do more than know your stuff. You’ll need to make the idea sound sexy, or cool, or hot, or timely, or cute, or something that instantly makes it clear to people why the world needs your book.
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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
