Alan Russell Quotes
I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'
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It's great to have Jack here twice in the final 10 days. We can win this riding and Jack's working hard to make that happen. We need a strong NDP voice from Vancouver Island North to get results for the people of our communities.
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I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.
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It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
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He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.
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If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.
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I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.
