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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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.
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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.
