Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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O woman shapely as a swan.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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I take 10 minutes. I focus on what I'm most grateful for. Then I do a little prayer for three minutes, a blessing within myself through God, and then out to my family and friends and all those I serve. Then my last three minutes are the three things I want to achieve most. At the end of 10 minutes, you are wired. Everything in your life gets filtered through that.
