Leon Russell Quotes
All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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I have to be honest here, I'm not really interested in selling records to people who are homophobic. I don't need the approval of people who don't approve of me.
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I take playing for my country very seriously. It's a huge honor.
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All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.
