Leon Russell Quotes

I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.

Leon Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016

Topics

SuccessWritingGameStoryLateNew

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

Jillian Bach

GoodGreatMeDreamDoneKind

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

Jeremy Irons

LiveDesireComfortableOutsideMost

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

John Coltrane

GoodMusicPeopleFreeHelpYou

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

DayWomanMeStoryThoughtDoing

Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.

Stephanie Laurens

WritingYouPossibleFollowWhatever

Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.

Stan Wawrinka

LifePositiveTimeWinNegative

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

Robert Altman

LeavingPresidentFranceElected

Hollywood has to diversify.

Roger Ross Williams

HollywoodDiversify

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

Rod Lurie

SocietyFlourishArtsBecomesFreer

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

GreatFootballMediaNewsHighOur

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Jonathan Lethem

LoveNew YorkWritingEnergyYou

There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.

Denis Napthine

SafetyNightSocietyYouLateTrain

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