Leon Russell Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.
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I love bipolar people.
