Alan Russell Quotes

Some of those I help are afflicted with what I call soul loss, which is what happens when the soul gets fragmented and a part of it does not know how to return to the body, or realizes it’s not safe to return.

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• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • Car
  • Shoes

• No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Long

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• It’s weird that there are so many people at Harvard who do amazing things outside the classroom. It just so happens that people like to watch what I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Weird

• Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Silly

• I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

  

  Adam West

• Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Author

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Money
  • History
  • Opportunity

• Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

  

  Wesley Morris
  • People
  • Feels
  • Media

• Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Soul
  • Monkeys

• Some of those I help are afflicted with what I call soul loss, which is what happens when the soul gets fragmented and a part of it does not know how to return to the body, or realizes it’s not safe to return.

  

  Alan Russell
  • Soul
  • Safe
  • Return