Alan Russell Quotes
God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.
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I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
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Iraqis must fight for their own country.
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If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.
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Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day, we don't owe 100 percent of ourselves to anyone, and that shouldn't be expected.
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We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
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I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell.
