Alan Russell Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
