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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'That's right.' Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'That's right.'

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Trying
  • Words

• I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Life
  • World
  • America

• Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

  

  James Gandolfini

• It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

  

  Euripides
  • Strong
  • Loved
  • Good Thing

• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Black
  • Revolution

• To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Song
  • Signature
  • Rosanna

• Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Soul
  • Chaos

• Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Reverence

• 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