John Shelton Reed Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
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Sure, yes, there are smoking-hot girls. But my girlfriend's smoking hot, my wife, whatever.
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While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
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People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
