L.A. Reid Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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You have to be yourself.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
