Leon Russell Quotes

I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

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• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
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• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

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• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

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• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

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• I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.

  

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• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

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• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

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• When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.

  

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  

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• One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

  

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• We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

  

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• It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

  

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• I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.

  

  Leon Russell
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