L.A. Reid Quotes
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
Quotes to Explore
-
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
-
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
-
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
-
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
-
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
-
I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
-
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
-
I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
-
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
-
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
-
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
-
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
-
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
-
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
-
The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
-
I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.
-
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
-
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.
-
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
-
This shows the youth that we have and the way that we have grown throughout the year. We have a number of young guys who are capable of being really good, and I think they'll get better and better.
-
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
