Ken Russell Quotes
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I can't go to war with paparazzi.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
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I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
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The operators should be able to manage the scene.
