Alan Russell Quotes
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.
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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul...
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Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.
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Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.
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You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.
