Leon Russell Quotes
The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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As long as the chromosome reproduced itself in sufficient dominance, he was immortal! To him, in an unscientific age, the problem did not present itself quite like that; but he realized that there was a trait to be kept in the family.
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I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.
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I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.
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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
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Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.
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The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.