Erk Russell Quotes
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.
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Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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I like cows very much. I like their big eyes and they moo a lot and they don't do any harm.
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I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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Given that I'm from the South, I wanted to do something to address that. I have been focusing more energy and resources on addressing those issues.
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The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
