Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes

I believe that I am one of the greats of this generation.

Ricky Reed

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Security

• People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Truth
  • Looks

• Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Today
  • See
  • Kings

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Huge

• The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Best
  • Listen

• When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Day
  • Child
  • End

• Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope

• This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.

  

  James Brown
  • Marriage

• Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Anxiety

• I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Music
  • Beach

• In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Single
  • Opinion
  • Design

• Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Movie

• The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Adventures

• The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Father
  • Sentimental

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I believe that I am one of the greats of this generation.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Believe
  • Generation