Top 100 Russo Quotes
#1. Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.
Jim Cornette
#2. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)
Martin Riggs
#3. Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
Dan Jenkins
#5. He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under.
Jim Cornette
#6. The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.
Jim Cornette
#7. Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.
Jim Cornette
#8. 'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
Katrina Law
#9. I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.
Charles Busch
#10. But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a 'serious' filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.
James Gunn
#11. Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.
Anthony Marra
#12. My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.
Rene Russo
#13. Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?
Richard Russo
#14. What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
Richard Russo
#17. If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn't, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. By
Richard Russo
#18. I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.
Rene Russo
#19. How often have wonder and curiosity led men toward certain death? How many men have been condemned for turning right instead of left?
Wendy S. Russo
#20. Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
Richard Russo
#21. To his surprise he ... discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something ... that you cared about a great deal.
Richard Russo
#22. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.
Rene Russo
#23. Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
Richard Russo
#24. I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.
Rene Russo
#25. I hear you don't write any more," he says ...
"Not true," I inform him. "You should see the margins of my student papers."
"Not the same as writing a book though, right?"
"Almost identical," I assure him. "Both go largely unread.
Richard Russo
#26. I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.
Rene Russo
#27. I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
Richard Russo
#28. The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant faggot because they know they aren't like that; they're threatened by a guy who's just like they are who turns out to be queer.
Vito Russo
#29. Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own ... Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do ...
Richard Russo
#30. I was never the kind of person who cared much what people thought about me.
Rene Russo
#31. I like him a lot.... I think I might love him. And it obviously isn't everything, but being the way I am has been a huge part of my life. It's easy to act like my past never happened, but it feels like I've put up this wall around my heart.
Meredith Russo
#32. I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.
Rene Russo
#33. I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.
Rene Russo
#34. Artists make art ... everyone else talks about it.
Paul Russo
#35. - You get more misanthropic every day.
- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.
Richard Russo
#36. Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.
Rene Russo
#37. ... a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.
Richard Russo
#38. Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In
Richard Russo
#39. I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.
Richard Russo
#40. Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
Richard Russo
#41. Radical faith means you trust that the Lord visited these weaknesses and sorrows on you as part of His plan...
Meredith Russo
#42. If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen's mirror would definitely say it was the fairest of them all.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#43. I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.
Richard Russo
#44. Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
Richard Russo
#45. I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.
Rene Russo
#46. Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
Richard Russo
#47. I've seen trans people in movies and TV shows, but judging by how unrealistic and shitty bi characters tend to be, I'm gonna assume I know nothing. So what's okay for me to ask?
Meredith Russo
#48. Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"
Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?"
"No," Miles conceded.
"Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.
Richard Russo
#49. Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.
Richard Russo
#50. If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Richard Russo
#51. Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But ... I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.
Rene Russo
#52. I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.
Rene Russo
#53. Also her perfume, which mingled with the crisp air off the lake below, creating an intoxicating mixture of damp earth and leaves and water and girl. Not woman, in Sully's opinion. Girl.
Richard Russo
#54. Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo
#55. I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.
Meredith Russo
#56. When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
Antonio Russo
#57. Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.
Richard Russo
#58. They're around back," she calls down when Julie and I get out. "Planning their strategy." "Good for them," I say, confident that no strategy that isn't grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a man like me.
Richard Russo
#59. By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.
Richard Russo
#60. Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,
Richard Russo
#61. The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
Richard Russo
#62. I think I'm allergic or something. I feel kinda strange... sort of floaty and light-headed."
"You ain't sick, hon," Mom said. She kissed me cheek and hugged me so tight I thought I might break a rib. "That's joy.
Meredith Russo
#63. Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
Richard Russo
#64. I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
Richard Russo
#65. The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village.
Tonya Russo Hamilton
#66. For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.
Meredith Russo
#67. Life is a mirror. The face you put into it, is the one you will see
Bill Russo
#68. I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.
Rene Russo
#69. I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.
Rene Russo
#70. I knew, really knew, I would never die with my song unsung.
Gary Russo
#71. Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which
Richard Russo
#73. Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
Richard Russo
#74. Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
Richard Russo
#75. Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
Richard Russo
#76. I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.
Rene Russo
#77. I loved 'Tin Cup' because even though that character had her own career and was strong, she was pretty confused. I think she was my favorite character because she was well-rounded. She didn't have it all together.
Rene Russo
#78. I have, in some ways, cleaved to stereotypes and even bent rules to make Amanda's trans-ness as unchallenging to normative assumptions as possible.
Meredith Russo
#80. And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.
Richard Russo
#81. Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
Richard Russo
#82. I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
Richard Russo
#83. When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.
Rene Russo
#84. They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.
Anna Dello Russo
#85. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.
Richard Russo
#86. In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.
Rene Russo
#87. I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.
Rene Russo
#88. I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Richard Russo
#89. Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt of it.
Richard Russo
#90. Persistence and love of one's work is the key.
Paul Russo
#91. old textile mill, which was in the process of being
Richard Russo
#92. I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?
Rene Russo
#93. When my nose finally stops bleeding and I've disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in.
Richard Russo
#94. In high school, I was very unpopular.
Rene Russo
#95. I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.
Rene Russo
#96. Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
Richard Russo
#97. Straight Man: But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public and private woes.
Richard Russo
#98. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
Richard Russo
#99. People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
Richard Russo
#100. Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.
Paul Russo
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