Russell Smith
Russell Smith
American country music singer who had a hit single with the song "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight."
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth17 June 1949
CountryCanada
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An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
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Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
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Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
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Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
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I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.
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I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
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Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer.
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
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My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.
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What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.
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A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
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Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.