Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

Ricky Reed

• Attention
• Short
• Middle

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Think
  • Creates

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Think
  • Know
  • Poetry

• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Real
  • Fun
  • You

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Black
  • Class
  • Middle

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Desire
  • Picture

• Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • World

• What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

  

  Christopher Fry

• I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Time
  • Song
  • Friend

• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Work

• I'm going to go with this pop/soul genre that I'm really loving and have always loved. I hope it does well for me, and I'm really excited about the future!

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Future

• I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Donald Trump
  • Caricature

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

  

  Dave Gibbons

• I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.

  

  Erin Siegal McIntyre
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Journalism

• I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Attention
  • Short
  • Middle