Leon Russell Quotes

I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

Leon Russell

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• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

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• I never said I was a genius.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

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• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

  

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• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

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• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

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• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

  

  Ed O'Neill
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• I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

  

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• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
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• I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• 'Did you ever taste beer?' 'I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. 'She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!'

  

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• I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living in the performing arts and entertainment: actors, singers, dancers, film producers, agents, managers, ticket takers, writers, anybody in times of need or crisis.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
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• President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
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• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

  

  Daniel Webster
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• I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.

  

  Danny Gokey
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• A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

  

  Evan Esar
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• I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

  

  Leon Russell