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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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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You can't go out and press. That's when you're going to make mistakes. Just act like you've done it before.
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.
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Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
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You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.
