Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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I only work with people I like.
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When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
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Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.
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I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.
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My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.
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Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.
