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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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
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The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
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Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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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.
