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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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
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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.
