Jimmy Reed Quotes
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?
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And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
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I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny.
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
