Leon Russell Quotes
Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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The physical and emotional qualifications to survive an apocalypse are naturally equalizing.
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If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.
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Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.
