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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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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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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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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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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And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
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Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.
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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
